ATLANTA, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation Atlanta Field Office issued the following press release:
ATLANTA - Gabriel Ojeda Murguia, a violent criminal with a history of hurting other people, was sentenced to nine years in prison after his conviction for trafficking over 25 kilograms of fentanyl and other drugs in the Atlanta area.
"The obscene amount of fentanyl Murguia possessed posed a significant threat to public health and public safety. If law enforcement had not stopped it from hitting the street, this poison could have ended tens of thousands of lives," said U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg. "The success of this operation came from the coordinated teamwork of multiple federal, state, an...