3 Mexican Men Plead Guilty in LA in Scheme to Distribute Millions of Fentanyl Pills

The plan was to meet a buyer at a Denny’s and sell him a sample box, then 1 million pills that day and 1 million more the next day.

Seized fentanyl pills after the arrest of three distributors from Sinaloa, Mexico. U.S. Attorney's Office

Three Mexican men pleaded guilty in federal court this week to a scheme in which they intended to sell millions of fentanyl pills, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in an April 2 press release.

According to their plea agreements, Florencio Camacho Allan, 29, Gerardo Gaxiola Patiño, 30, and Alex Valdez Oroz, 26, all from Sinaloa, Mexico, conspired with one another and others from September 2022 to March 2023 to sell about 2 million fentanyl pills.