Published April 05, 2022

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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