{"id":373108,"date":"2026-06-24T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/373108\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:33:12","slug":"fresno-california-man-caught-with-92-kilos-of-meth-in-his-car-sentenced-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/373108\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno, California, man caught with 92 kilos of meth in his car sentenced Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) &#8211; A man from Fresno, California, has been convicted of Conspiracy to distribute a Controlled Substance after being caught moving drugs through South Dakota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Alonso Molina-Corona, 43, was sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Molina-Corona was indicted for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance by a federal grand jury in August of 2025 and pleaded guilty in March of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The charges stem from when Molina-Corona was stopped by a highway patrol officer on I-90 back in 2025, and over 92 kilograms (approximately 200 pounds) of meth were found inside his vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was transporting drugs from the West Coast for Midwest distribution as part of a conspiracy, and was identified as a drug courier. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative by the Department of Justice aimed at combating illegal immigration, dismantling drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations, and safeguarding communities from violent crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Drug Enforcement Administration, South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation, and the South Dakota Highway Patrol investigated this case. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Dakota News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) &#8211; A man from Fresno, California, has been convicted of Conspiracy to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-373108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}