09-05-2025
5 Arkansas residents sentenced in Oklahoma on federal drug crimes
MUSKOGEE, Oklahoma (KNWA/KFTA) — Five Arkansas residents were sentenced in Oklahoma for federal drug crimes.
According to a press release from the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, the leader of the drug trafficking organization, Rito Alvarado Gomez, 37, was sentenced May 8 to more than 15 years in prison for drug conspiracy.
Gomez's co-defendants were sentenced at hearings held between March 25 and May 6. Three were sentenced for distribution of methamphetamine:
Ricardo Villeda, 26, was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison;
Jose Alberto Alvarado Gomez, 34, was sentenced to more than 4 years in prison; and
Iris Yosellin Luna-Herrera, 27, was sentenced to more than 3 years in prison.
Another co-defendant, Ana Isabel Frayere Barboza, 38, was sentenced to more than 1 year in prison for one count of misprision of felony.
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The release says in 2018 and continuing until March 2024, defendants traveled from Arkansas to the Eastern District of Oklahoma to distribute meth and collect money owed for meth. The five sold more than 9 kilograms of meth.
The charges arose from a joint investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration-McAlester Resident Office, along with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Texarkana Resident Agency, Homeland Security Investigations-Texarkana, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, the 8th North Drug Task Force out of Hope, Arkansas, and the 9th West Drug Task Force out of Nashville, Arkansas.
Several law enforcement agencies also contributed to the investigation, including the Arkansas State Police, the Hope Police Department, and the McCurtain County Sheriff's Office.
Rito Alvarado Gomez, Jose Alvarado Gomez, Villeda and Luna-Herrera are in custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending transportation to a prison to serve nonparoleable sentences.
Barboza was ordered to report to the R.S. Marshals on June 2 when she will begin serving her nonparoleable sentence.
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