SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and acting Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents announced that Alejandro Alvarez had been sentenced to 160 drugs in a scheme to distribute more than 65 pounds of methamphetamine. Month incarcerated Bob P. Bellis. The judgment was pronounced by the Honourable William H. O’Rick, United States District Judge.
After a four-day trial, a federal jury returned a guilty verdict on April 14, 2022. Trial evidence showed Alvarez, a 46-year-old San Francisco native, handed out tens of thousands of dollars a month in methamphetamine and heroin while San Francisco police officers executed a search warrant at his residence. Law enforcement officers seized approximately 65 pounds of methamphetamine with a street retail value of more than $1.5 million.
Trial evidence suggested the investigation began when San Francisco Police Department officials learned of a man named “Chewy” who was selling heroin and other drugs. Ultimately, officials found enough evidence to obtain and execute a search warrant for Alvarez’s apartment. They recovered more than $46,000 in bulk cash, about 65 pounds of methamphetamine and other signs of drug trafficking. Evidence at the trial showed that Alvarez managed a complex drug distribution business out of an apartment on Sanchez Street in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood. Text messages between Alvarez and his clients, including their names, transaction dates, drug quantities and drug types, were matched to a ledger found on Alvarez’s bed, which showed the ability to dispense hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of drugs each year. operate. gentlemen. Alvarez’s books show he sold $15,300 worth of methamphetamine and heroin in the week before his arrest.
On February 20, 2020, a federal grand jury indicted Alvarez, charging him with one count of intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine in violation of 21 USC §§ 841(a)(1) and (b )(1)(A)(viii). According to the jury’s verdict, Alvarez was found guilty of the only count in the indictment.
In addition to the sentence, Judge O’Rick ordered the accused to begin serving five years of supervised release after Alvarez completes his sentence.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph Tartakovsky and Alexis James, assisted by Lance Libatique, prosecuted the case. The indictment is the result of an investigation by the San Francisco Police Department, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.