{"id":65504,"date":"2025-11-26T05:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65504\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T05:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:19:15","slug":"new-mexico-man-sentenced-to-over-21-years-in-prison-for-trafficking-1-5-kg-of-fentanyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65504\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico man sentenced to over 21 years in prison for trafficking 1.5 kg of fentanyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A New Mexico man has been sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for trafficking approximately 1.5 kilograms of fentanyl. <\/p>\n<p>Edgar Omar Martinez, 43, from Anthony, was sentenced in a federal court in El Paso on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Martinez was arrested on March 14 after FBI agents seized around 17,000 fentanyl pills from his vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>Court documents revealed that Martinez received the pills from a co-conspirator two weeks before the seizure and was expecting a payment of $3,200 for his role in the drug trafficking conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was indicted on April 9 on charges of possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute the same amount. <\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty to both charges on Aug. 26. U.S. District Judge Leon Schydlower presided over the case.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/dona-ana-county-sheriffs-office-seeks-public-help-in-homicide-investigation?SRC=LINK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Do\u00f1a Ana County Sheriff&#8217;s Office seeks public help in homicide investigation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (2)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A New Mexico man has been sentenced to 21 years in federal prison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-65504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}