WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
OAKLAND - Mario Sevilla Artiaga and Danexi Mendoza Licona were each sentenced to seven years in federal prison on Friday, October 23, for conspiring to and selling fentanyl. U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar handed down the sentence.
Mario Sevilla Artiaga, 23, and Danexi Mendoza Licona, 22, both nationals of Honduras, were indicted by a federal grand jury on February 26, 2026, for conspiring to and possessing with intent to distribute more than 400 grams of a substance containing fentanyl. Sevilla pleaded guilty on June 12, 2026, to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute at least 40 gr...