Texas Man Sentenced in After Pleading Guilty in Louisiana Drug Case After Heroin Found Disguised in Shoes
Texas Man Sentenced in After Pleading Guilty in Louisiana Drug Case After Heroin Found Disguised in Shoes
Louisiana – Jorge Omar Jiminez, age 24, a resident of San Antonio, Texas, was sentenced on March 31, 2022, to eighteen months imprisonment, three months of supervised release, and a $100.00 mandatory special assessment fee by U.S. District Judge Wendy B. Vitter after pleading guilty to a one-count indictment charging him with possession with intent to distribute one-hundred (100) grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of heroin in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(B), announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
According to court documents, in February 2020, a Mexican drug trafficker contacted a confidential Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) source and offered to deliver a half-kilogram of heroin via courier. Jiminez, the courier, arrived in New Orleans on February 9, 2020, and checked into a hotel on Canal Street. The source arranged a meeting with Jiminez the next day, under the supervision of HSI agents, to complete the transaction. Agents approached Jiminez, who was carrying a black bag, as he left the hotel to meet the source.
Agents searched the bag after obtaining Jiminez’s permission and discovered a pair of black tennis shoes inside a separate backpack. A black tar substance was hidden in the soles of each shoe. The substance was identified as heroin by laboratory analysis, and the total weight was approximately one-half-kilogram. Jiminez told agents in a post-arrest interview that an unknown man gave him the shoes in McAllen, Texas, and told him to travel to New Orleans and sell the drugs to the source for $11,000.00.
The Office of Homeland Security Investigations investigated this case. André Jones, an Assistant United States Attorney, was in charge of the prosecution.
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