Del Rio judge sentences Oklahoma man to 30 years for cocaine smuggling

A Del Rio federal judge has sent Jordy Alexander Amaya to 360 months in federal prison after a jury convicted the Oklahoma man of smuggling cocaine through the Eagle Pass Port of Entry, a case that federal prosecutors say reached into a Texas-based trafficking network moving methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and fentanyl.

The sentence, imposed June 5, capped a prosecution built around a Sept. 16, 2024 inspection at the port. Customs and Border Protection officers found about 1.9 kilograms of cocaine in Amaya’s vehicle, according to the Justice Department. Prosecutors later told jurors that Amaya was tied to a larger drug trafficking organization and had previously crossed into the United States in a known DTO vehicle in 2022 and 2023.

Amaya, who was 27 at the time of the conviction announcement, was identified by federal prosecutors as a U.S. citizen and Mexico City resident. He was indicted in October 2024 on four counts: conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, conspiracy to import cocaine and importation of cocaine. On Aug. 28, 2025, a federal jury in Del Rio found him guilty on all four charges.

The sentence brings the case into the Del Rio Division, where federal courts regularly handle major border-drug prosecutions that affect Val Verde County and the wider West Texas border corridor. The Del Rio Division serves seven counties, and local residents have seen how heavily federal agencies continue to use the Eagle Pass route as a pressure point against trafficking groups.

The Justice Department said Homeland Security Investigations led the investigation as part of a Homeland Security Task Force case, with the prosecution handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Warsame Galaydh and Tyler Fleming. The case was presented as part of a broader federal strategy aimed at organized networks rather than isolated seizures.

That strategy has been visible on the same stretch of border before. In June 2021, federal prosecutors announced an Eagle Pass-area case against 16 members and associates of Partido Revolutionario Mexicano, saying the organization had been trafficking narcotics since March 2019 and that the effort drew on DEA, FBI, HSI, Border Patrol, Texas Department of Public Safety, the Eagle Pass Police Department and sheriff’s offices in Maverick, Dimmitt and Val Verde counties.

Recent seizures at the port underline why federal prosecutors keep pressing cases there. In December 2024, CBP officers at Eagle Pass seized 27.91 pounds of alleged cocaine worth an estimated $372,659 after a secondary inspection and canine alert, and another December enforcement action recovered more than $414,000 in narcotics. For Val Verde County, the 30-year sentence shows that cocaine cases moving through Del Rio can end in lengthy federal prison terms long after the search at the port is over.