One Iowan and Two Mexicans Sentenced to Federal Prison for Agreeing to Distribute Meth and Fentanyl
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, October 14, 2022
Law Enforcement Officers Seized More Than 90 Pounds of Meth, 23 Pounds of Fentanyl, and Two Guns During Investigation
Three men who were involved in a Mexico‑based drug trafficking organization were sentenced today to significant time in federal prison.
Levi Dull, age 43, from Cedar Falls, Iowa, received the prison term after a February 28, 2022 guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Ruben Vasquez, age 44, a citizen of Mexico, received the prison term after a May 2, 2022 guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Narciso Chinchillas Sanchez, age 23, a citizen of Mexico, received the prison term after a March 1, 2022 guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance.
Evidence at their respective sentencings showed that Dull, Vasquez, and Chinchillas Sanchez were members of a Mexico‑based drug trafficking organization that was distributing methamphetamine and fentanyl in the Waterloo, Iowa, area. Starting no later than January 2021 and continuing until August 2021, a Mexico‑based source of supply provided Dull with at least 42 pounds of methamphetamine that was imported from Mexico. In the spring or early summer of 2021, Dull owed money to the Mexico‑based organization, so his supplier enlisted Vasquez to give Dull a pound of meth, provided he could pay for it. Dull could then sell the meth and use the proceeds to repay his debt. Vasquez distributed at least 11 pounds of methamphetamine to Dull. At some point in the early summer of 2021, the Mexico‑based supplier directed Chinchillas Sanchez to travel to Waterloo and assist in distributing methamphetamine to Dull. Chinchillas Sanchez distributed at least 30 pounds of methamphetamine to Dull.
On August 14, 2021, Dull distributed a substance containing fentanyl that eventually resulted in two men overdosing, with one of the men dying as a result. On August 18, 2021, law enforcement officers searched Dull’s home in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Dull’s storage unit in Waterloo. The officers recovered two guns, including one that was stolen, ammunition, almost 300 grams of methamphetamine, almost 2 grams of a substance containing heroin and fentanyl, and several other controlled substances.
More:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndia/pr/one-iowan-and-two-mexicans-sentenced-federal-prison-agreeing-distribute-meth-and
Levi Dull, Cedar Falls, Iowa