California Man Pleads Guilty to Methamphetamine Distribution

MUSKOGEE, OK—Sheldon J. Sperling, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that ROBERT DAVID MEDINA, a/k/a, Pepe, age 31 of Winton, California, pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of controlled substance, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846.

MEDINA was indicted in November, 2009. The indictment alleged that from 2004 through February, 2009, MEDINA and others agreed to purchase large quantities of methamphetamine in the state of California and transport the drugs to McCurtain County, Oklahoma for further sale. The meth was sold throughout southeastern Oklahoma by co-conspirators previously prosecuted in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The investigation began in 2004. Assistant U.S. Attorney Rob Wallace led the complex inter-district, multi-state prosecution. Agents from the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN), Drug Enforcement Administration, Choctaw and McCurtain County Sheriff’s Departments, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Lamar County Texas District Attorney’s Drug Task Force, McAlester Police Department, Krebs Police Department, the United States Marshal Service, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Oklahoma National Guard, Oklahoma Department of Human Services, and the Civil Air Patrol participated in the investigation. This investigation targeted the sale of diverted prescription drugs and illicit drugs in Southeast Oklahoma and Northeast Texas. The investigation was coordinated by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) of the Eastern District of Oklahoma. OCDETF is an initiative led in and coordinated by the Office of the United States Attorney.

The Honorable Steven P. Shreder, Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in Muskogee, accepted the defendant’s guilty plea and ordered the completion of a presentence report. Sentencing will be scheduled following its completion. MEDINA was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshal Service pending sentencing.