Twenty central Texas residents, including a Rockdale woman, face federal drug trafficking and firearms charges stemming from five separate, but related, federal grand jury indictments unsealed last week in Waco, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff and others.
Indictment No.1 is U.S. v. Gutierrez, et al. This federal grand jury indictment charges the following defendants with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine: Anthony Gutierrez, aka Cuzzo, 34, San Juan; Jose Francisco Gutierrez, 33, Killeen; Sarah Elizabeth Crigger, 30, Nolanville; Bobby Quinton Gentile, 43, Holland; Ashley Nicole Sutton, 31, Belton; Wesley Warrick, 50, Cameron; Carlos Avila, 38, Buckholts; Joe David Beck, 50, Temple; Lesleigh Arianne Bittner, 33, Belton; Aleah Freitag, 29, Rockdale; Kimberly Lee, 26, Gatesville; Colton Lane Lewis, 30, Temple; Angela Loy, 32, Temple; Frank Medina Jr., 43, Temple; Timothy Neal Nyquist, 36, Temple; and Trisha Ann Sanchez, 40, Temple.
The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired since January 2020 to distribute multiple kilogram quantities of methamphetamine in Bell County and surrounding areas.
Within a few days of the indictment’s release, federal, state and local authorities arrested 13 of the above defendants. Jose Gutierrez, Crigger and Lewis were already in custody prior to the announcement of the grand jury findings. During this investigation authorities seized approximately four kilograms of cocaine, approximately seven kilograms of methamphetamine and a half a dozen firearms.
Anthony Gutierrez, Jose Gutierrez, Crigger, Gentile, Sutton and Warrick face between 10 years and life in federal prison upon conviction because the quantity level charged is at least 500 grams.
The remaining defendants face between five years and 40 years in federal prison upon conviction because the quantity level charged is at least 50 grams.
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