Fresno man gets 4 years in prison for meth conspiracy
A Fresno man got 4 years and 2 months after a South Dakota stop exposed more than 200 pounds of meth moving from the West Coast to the Midwest.
Judge Camela C. Theeler sentenced Alonso Molina-Corona, 43, in U.S. District Court in Rapid City, South Dakota, to four years and two months in prison after he admitted helping move more than 92 kilos of methamphetamine through a West Coast-to-Midwest conspiracy. Molina-Corona was taken into U.S. Marshals custody immediately after the June 22 hearing.
The sentence also includes five years of supervised release and a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund. The case began with a South Dakota Highway Patrol stop on Interstate 90 in August 2025, when troopers found about 200 pounds of methamphetamine in Molina-Corona’s vehicle.
Molina-Corona was transporting the drugs from the West Coast for distribution in the Midwest and was a courier in the conspiracy. He was indicted in August 2025 and pleaded guilty on March 9, 2026, before the June sentencing.
The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation and the South Dakota Highway Patrol. Assistant U.S. Attorney Paige Petersen prosecuted the case for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Dakota.
The prosecution was part of Operation Take Back America, a Justice Department initiative.
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