Texas man arrested in 2022 for trafficking fentanyl convicted
Updated: 8:27 AM CST Jan 25, 2023
A Dallas man who was arrested in Rankin County in 2022 for aggravated trafficking of fentanyl pleaded guilty on Jan. 18.According to the District Attorney’s Office, Carlos Martinez, 28, will serve 10 years without the possibility of parole.On April 25, 2022, Martinez was stopped for a traffic violation on I-20. Upon approaching the car, the deputy smelled marijuana. After a check of the vehicle, officers found packages that contained over 10,000 counterfeit oxycodone that contained Fentanyl. District Attorney John Bramlett Jr. said this pill is often passed off as oxycodone.“Carlos Martinez chose to traffic the very drug I have repeatedly warned our community about. Martinez’s actions are precisely how this poison gets into the hands of the citizens of this county, whether they are unsuspecting drug addicts or curious novices,” Bramlett said. “We hope this is the end of Martinez’s criminal behavior and that this sentence will discourage others from choosing to make easy money by trafficking poison in and through our country, state, and county.” Martinez will serve his sentence in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
A Dallas man who was arrested in Rankin County in 2022 for aggravated trafficking of fentanyl pleaded guilty on Jan. 18.
According to the District Attorney’s Office, Carlos Martinez, 28, will serve 10 years without the possibility of parole.
On April 25, 2022, Martinez was stopped for a traffic violation on I-20.
Upon approaching the car, the deputy smelled marijuana. After a check of the vehicle, officers found packages that contained over 10,000 counterfeit oxycodone that contained Fentanyl.
District Attorney John Bramlett Jr. said this pill is often passed off as oxycodone.
“Carlos Martinez chose to traffic the very drug I have repeatedly warned our community about. Martinez’s actions are precisely how this poison gets into the hands of the citizens of this county, whether they are unsuspecting drug addicts or curious novices,” Bramlett said. “We hope this is the end of Martinez’s criminal behavior and that this sentence will discourage others from choosing to make easy money by trafficking poison in and through our country, state, and county.”
Martinez will serve his sentence in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
