Kennesaw Couple Sentenced In Coast-To-Coast Meth Smuggling Ring

ATLANTA -- A Kennesaw couple has been sentenced for their role in a coast-t-coast meth smuggling operation. Yadira Gomez-Gonzalez, 34, and her husband, Fernando Herrera-Rojas, 35, were looking for tractor-trailer drivers to haul drugs between Los Angeles and Atlanta. An undercover agent, acting as a long-haul trucker, volunteered for the job and negotiated the terms of the transportation and payment with Gomez-Gonzalez and Herrera-Rojas.

The agent then collected nearly 14 kilograms of 100% pure methamphetamine from Reynaldo Gonzalez-Arreola in Commerce, California. All three defendants were arrested after the undercover agent delivered the drugs to Gomez-Gonzalez and Herrera-Rojas in Atlanta.

Police also seized more than $23,000 and a firearm from Gonzalez-Arreola’s home in Los Angeles. Gomez-Gonzalez’s arrest thwarted a separate shipment of drugs she was attempting to coordinate from McAllen, Texas to Atlanta.

Gomez-Gonzalez was sentenced to 14 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release. Herrera-Rojas was sentenced to eight years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release.

A third man, Reynaldo Gonzalez-Arreola, 32, of Los Angeles, was sentenced to 14 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release.

The charges were brought as a part of the Department of Justice’s Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force program, which was established in 1982 to attack major drug trafficking and money laundering organizations.