Member of North American Drug Trafficking Network Convicted in Los Angeles Federal Court
Los Angeles is a city in Los Angeles County, California. A member of a Canadian-based drug trafficking organization that moved large amounts of narcotics throughout North America was convicted at trial on the afternoon of October 16, 2026, in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, the FBI's Los Angeles field office announced.
David Joner, 58, of Fall City, Washington, was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, and one count of conspiracy to export cocaine.
Joner was one of 16 defendants indicted by a federal grand jury in 2019 as part of Operation 'Dying Declaration,' a joint FBI and Los Angeles Police Department investigation targeting a large drug trafficking organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
According to the indictment, the organization, led by defendant Tenny Guon Lim, a convicted Canadian drug trafficker also known as 'The Goat' and 'Max Power,' sent multi-kilogram quantities of MDMA, also known as ecstasy, to the United States in exchange for multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine obtained by U.S.-based associates in Mexico. Lim is currently in Canada pending extradition to the United States. Agents learned the organization used encrypted digital devices to communicate.
The cocaine obtained in Mexico was exchanged for MDMA in the Los Angeles area, and the drugs were transported between Los Angeles and Canada either directly or through Washington state. Joner worked for the Washington cell of the organization and trafficked numerous multi-kilogram loads of cocaine from the Los Angeles area to Canada. Seven defendants in the case have been convicted and nine are pending prosecution. The case was investigated by the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the LAPD, and prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
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