佐治亚州货车内查获约440磅冰毒：两度被遣返的57岁男子被控贩运与非法入境
佐治亚州联邦检察官办公室11月10日公布，57岁的 Gerardo Miranda Mendoza 11月9日在联邦法院出庭，被控共谋持有冰毒意图分销与被遣返后非法入境。执法人员此前在 Conyers 查获他驾驶的厢式货车，车内装有约440磅冰毒。Mendoza 来自墨西哥 Morelia，此前两次因毒品犯罪定罪、两次被遣返出境。法官下令将他交由美国法警局羁押，不准保释。
联邦检察官 Theodore S. Hertzberg 表示，Mendoza 尽管有两次贩毒定罪并被遣返，仍被指再次非法返回美国、企图贩运数量巨大的冰毒。他说，多亏国土安全任务部队的工作，近四分之一吨的致命冰毒被拦下，Mendoza 可能面临在联邦监狱度过余生。
根据检方在法庭上陈述的情况，2026年11月7日，联邦缉毒调查人员监视到 Mendoza 与另一名男子分别驾车抵达 Stonecrest 一家商店的停车场。Mendoza 进入商店后，另一名男子把他的厢式货车开到 Conyers 一处仓库，把多个垃圾袋装进车内，再把车开回停车场离开。Mendoza 随后重新上车驶离，不久被一名佐治亚州巡警以交通违规拦下。执法人员搜查货车时，在多个垃圾袋中发现总重约440磅的冰毒。
调查还显示，Mendoza 有两项前科：2009年在联邦法院被判定共谋分销结晶冰毒，1998年在加州被判定运输受管制物质。两次定罪后他都被遣返出境，最近一次是2017年11月。
此案由美国缉毒局（DEA）与美国邮政检查局调查，佐治亚州巡警提供协助，起诉是国土安全任务部队行动的一部分。助理联邦检察官 Drew Waldbeser 负责起诉。检方提醒，刑事诉状只是指控，Mendoza 在法庭证明有罪之前被推定无罪。
Twice-Deported Man Charged in Georgia After About 440 Pounds of Methamphetamine Found in Van
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia announced on November 10 that Gerardo Miranda Mendoza, 57, appeared in federal court on November 9 on charges of conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute and illegal reentry by a previously removed alien. Officers had seized the van he was driving in Conyers, Georgia, where they found about 440 pounds of methamphetamine. Mendoza, of Morelia, Mexico, had twice been convicted of drug trafficking and twice removed from the United States. He was ordered detained in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service without bail.
U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg said that despite two prior drug trafficking convictions and subsequent deportations, Mendoza allegedly returned illegally and attempted to traffic a massive amount of methamphetamine. He said that thanks to the Homeland Security Task Force, nearly a quarter-ton of deadly methamphetamine was taken off the street and Mendoza now faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life in federal prison.
According to information presented in court, on November 7, 2026, investigators watched Mendoza and another individual arrive in separate vehicles at a store parking lot in Stonecrest, Georgia. After Mendoza went inside the store, the other man drove Mendoza's van to a warehouse in Conyers, loaded trash bags into the vehicle, returned to the parking lot and left. Mendoza then got back into the van and drove away, and a Georgia State Patrol trooper stopped him shortly afterward for a traffic violation. A search of the van found numerous trash bags containing a total of about 440 pounds of methamphetamine.
The investigation also showed that Mendoza has a 2009 federal conviction for conspiracy to distribute crystal methamphetamine and a 1998 California state conviction for transporting controlled substances. He was deported following each conviction, most recently in November 2017.
The case is being investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, with assistance from the Georgia State Patrol, as part of the Homeland Security Task Force. Assistant U.S. Attorney Drew Waldbeser is prosecuting the case. Prosecutors noted that a criminal complaint contains only charges and that Mendoza is presumed innocent until proven guilty at trial.
来源：美国司法部
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图片来源：图：位于 Atlanta 的佐治亚州议会大厦（资料图）。本案由美国联邦检察官办公室（佐治亚北区）公布。照片：Ken Lund，CC BY-SA 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta (file photo). The case was announced by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia. Photo by Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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