Sabino Osvaldo Gomez-Perez, a 36-year-old Mexican national, was sentenced to 57 months in prison by a U.S. District Court Judge for trafficking fentanyl in Utah. Gomez-Perez admitted to possessing and intending to distribute approximately 58,000 fentanyl pills, which were seized by the FBI Wasatch Metro Drug Task Force.
Following his prison term, Gomez-Perez will be transferred to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation proceedings. He pleaded guilty on May 29, 2025, to possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute.
Court documents and statements from his plea and sentencing hearings indicate that on October 9, 2024, Gomez-Perez knowingly possessed nearly 6 kilograms of fentanyl and had distributed narcotics in both Arizona and Utah before his arrest.
Acting U.S. Attorney Felice John Viti of the District of Utah announced the sentence. The investigation was led by the FBI Wasatch Metro Drug Task Force. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah prosecuted the case.
The prosecution was part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) operation. OCDETF uses a coordinated approach among multiple agencies to identify and dismantle high-level criminal organizations threatening the United States. More information about OCDETF is available at https://www.justice.gov/OCDETF.
