芬太尼跨州贩运团伙组织者Clarence Nero被判监禁264个月
2025年6月24日，位于德克萨斯州格雷森县 Sherman 的德州东区联邦法院，芬太尼跨州贩运团伙组织者 Clarence Nero 被判联邦监禁264个月，即22年。联邦检察官办公室德州东区分局当日公布了判决。
Nero 现年56岁，来自亚特兰大，经为期三天的审判被陪审团认定共谋贩运芬太尼罪名成立，判决由联邦法官 Amos L. Mazzant 作出。
法庭出示的信息显示，Nero 是这个贩运团伙的组织者：芬太尼被走私越过美国边境进入亚利桑那州，再从 Phoenix 分销到 New Orleans 与东海岸，这个共谋网络横贯美国南部。
案件的突破口出现在2022年2月14日。Quanita Brown 在德州登顿县380号公路上被拦查，警犬发出提示后，执法人员在她车内的暗格里查获2.5公斤芬太尼。循着这批芬太尼的来源追查，调查人员锁定 Nero 是主要供应者。
此案是司法部在全国推行的 Operation Take Back America 行动的一部分。该案由国土安全调查局与登顿县警长办公室调查，助理联邦检察官 Michael Anderson 与 Chris Rapp 承办起诉。
（来源：美国司法部）
Fentanyl Trafficking Organizer Clarence Nero Sentenced to 264 Months in Federal Prison
On June 24, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Sherman, Grayson County, Texas, Clarence Nero, the organizer of a cross-state fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, was sentenced to 264 months in federal prison, or 22 years. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Texas announced the sentence the same day.
Nero, 56, of Atlanta, was convicted following a three-day trial of conspiring to traffic fentanyl, and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant.
According to information presented in court, Nero was the organizer of a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy that smuggled fentanyl across the United States border into Arizona, and then from Phoenix to New Orleans and the east coast, in a conspiracy that spanned the southern United States.
The break in the case came on February 14, 2022, when Quanita Brown was stopped on Highway 380 in Denton County, Texas. After a police K-9 alerted, officers found 2.5 kilograms of fentanyl hidden in a false compartment in her vehicle. Investigating the source of that fentanyl led authorities to Nero as the principal supplier.
The case was part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide Justice Department initiative. It was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations and the Denton County Sheriff's Office and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael Anderson and Chris Rapp.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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图片来源：图：位于德克萨斯州登顿县登顿市的历史县法院大楼，本案关键拦查与登顿县警长办公室的调查发生于登顿县。Aaron Jacobs 摄，CC BY-SA 2.5，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The historic Denton County Courthouse in Denton, Denton County, Texas; the key traffic stop and the Denton County Sheriff's Office investigation in this case took place in Denton County. Photo by Aaron Jacobs, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
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