Raymundo Guadalupe Felix-Perez, a 34-year-old man from Sinaloa, Mexico, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison without parole for his role in a fentanyl distribution conspiracy. The sentencing took place on January 27, 2026, in Kansas City, Missouri, with U.S. District Judge Roseann A. Ketchmark presiding. In addition to the prison term, Felix-Perez received five years of supervised release and an $80,000 money judgment.
Felix-Perez had previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl between October 27, 2020, and January 24, 2023. He also admitted to conspiracy to commit money laundering within the Western District of Missouri.
The case revealed that Felix-Perez began selling M30 fentanyl pills to a co-conspirator in western Missouri during the fall of 2020. The original indictment charged Troy Lee Palmer and Dallas W. Hughs with multiple offenses related to fentanyl distribution and firearm possession linked to drug trafficking. Further investigation identified additional members of the conspiracy: Craig Troester, Dakota Morris, Cassidie Bumgarner, Lucas Coltrain, and Jessica Moody. The final superseding indictment included Felix-Perez along with Joshua Stramel and Kaden Bernard for distributing more than 400 grams of fentanyl. All individuals involved have now been sentenced.
After being indicted but before arrest, Felix-Perez returned to Sinaloa and continued supplying fentanyl to contacts in Missouri as well as Iowa, Arizona, and Idaho. He was apprehended on June 30, 2024, while attempting re-entry into the United States through southern California.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Maureen A. Brackett prosecuted the case following an investigation by multiple agencies including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; local sheriff’s offices; police departments; federal agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Postal Inspection Service; Homeland Security Investigations; Internal Revenue Service; and others.
“This operation is part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” according to information released about the case. “The HSTF is a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad.” The statement continues: “Through historic interagency collaboration, the HSTF directs the full might of United States law enforcement towards identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the full spectrum of crimes committed by these organizations… The HSTF further utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States.”
The prosecution was led by attorneys from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri—a federal office responsible for managing crime prosecutions across 66 counties stretching from Iowa’s border southward toward Arkansas official website. This office collaborates with federal as well as state law enforcement partners on issues such as drug trafficking official website, operates out of Kansas City with locations in Jefferson City and Springfield official website, provides community outreach programs official website, and has served its jurisdiction since being established by Congress in 1857 official website.
