Sacramento Man Sentenced to More Than 13 Years for Trafficking Fentanyl and Heroin and Illegal Firearms Possession
On February 14, 2025, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California and the Drug Enforcement Administration jointly announced that Alberto Gonzalez Salgado, a resident of Sacramento, a city in Sacramento County, California, was sentenced for drug trafficking and firearms crimes. Salgado, 45, was sentenced on Thursday, February 13, to 13 years and one month in prison and ordered to forfeit $100,000 to the government.
United States District Judge Daniel J. Calabretta imposed the sentence. Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Bob P. Beris announced the sentence.
According to court documents, in 2019 and 2020, Salgado trafficked fentanyl pills, heroin, marijuana, and firearms. On multiple occasions, Salgado sold heroin, fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills, and illegal short-barreled rifles to a confidential source.
Salgado also maintained a stash house in Sacramento, where he grew over 100 marijuana plants and kept a firearm to protect his drug trafficking operation.
In October 2020, when law enforcement attempted to stop Salgado's vehicle to arrest him on the way to a fentanyl pill deal, Salgado fled, leading law enforcement on a high-speed vehicle chase on public roadways that lasted over an hour and a half and endangered law enforcement officers and the public.
This case was the product of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, the Sacramento Area Intelligence/Narcotics Task Force, and the California Highway Patrol. Assistant U.S. Attorney David W. Spencer prosecuted the case.
The case was investigated under the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), which identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the highest-level criminal organizations that threaten the United States using a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
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Photo: 图：位于萨克拉门托的罗伯特·T·松井美国联邦法院大楼夜景，本案由美国司法部加州东区联邦检察官办公室与缉毒局联合宣布（照片：Tony Webster，CC BY 2.0，Wikimedia Commons）。 / Photo: The Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse in Sacramento at dusk; the case was announced jointly by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California and the DEA (photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons).
