From An Ohio Jail Cell, An Illegal Alien Used A Smuggled Cell Phone To Run Nationwide Drug Trafficking Operation

A Mexican national serving time in an Ohio prison ran a massive drug trafficking ring that distributed meth, fentanyl, heroin, and more throughout the Buckeye State and beyond.

Jose Bernardo Lozano-Leon, a previously deported illegal alien, was sentenced on February 1 to more than 10 years in prison for his illicit operation after he pleaded guilty to using a smuggled cell phone to orchestrate the narcotics trade from inside the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center.

According to The News-Herald, Lozano-Leon was charged in 2019 along with nine other individuals by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio after the crew was busted for “trafficking fentanyl and fentanyl analogs, often in blue pills that were stamped to look like oxycodone. Those drugs along with cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana were shipped from Mexico to a house in Cleveland and from there sold throughout Northeast Ohio.”

Lozano-Leon, however, was inside a prison cell when the drug trade began, serving an 18-month prison sentence for illegal re-entry after he had pled guilty to entering the U.S. without permission. He conducted the operation remotely after a drone delivered a mini-cell phone to the Mexican national inside the facility. According to authorities, police were able to monitor conversations between Lozano-Leon and his posse.- READ MORE