PLANO, Texas – A Mexican national has received a federal prison sentence for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, as announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Abe McGlothin, Jr.
Willy Armando Ramirez-Garcia, 34, was sentenced to 320 months in federal prison on May 1, 2025, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine. The sentence was delivered by U.S. District Judge Jeremy D. Kernodle.
Court records reveal that Ramirez-Garcia led a methamphetamine trafficking organization in Texas from January 2021 to May 2021 while illegally residing in the U.S. The organization smuggled liquid methamphetamine from Mexico into the U.S., concealing it within diesel tanks of commercial tractor-trailers. Once in North Texas, the liquid methamphetamine was converted into crystal methamphetamine, stored at a stash house in Dallas, and distributed in kilogram quantities.
The investigation uncovered that the trafficking operation involved a local narcotics broker, Rosa Velasco De Ballin, and her source, Ivan Dejesus Suastes-Cruz, among other co-conspirators. Operations were conducted from a stash house in Dallas and a ranch in Kemp, where methamphetamine was manufactured. Angel Rodriguez-Campuzano was identified as a distributor for Suastes-Cruz. The investigation found Suastes-Cruz and co-conspirators, Juan Fuentez and German Zapata, working under Ramirez-Garcia's direction. They contributed to transporting, distributing, and securing storage for the methamphetamine. Subsequent searches of the Dallas stash house and Kemp ranch uncovered 66 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine and 25 kilograms of liquid methamphetamine. Co-defendants received the following sentences: De Ballin - 168 months, Rodriguez-Campuzano - 295 months, Suastes-Cruz - 240 months, Fuentez - 300 months, and Zapata - 270 months.
This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide effort by the Department of Justice to tackle illegal immigration, eradicate cartels and transnational criminal organizations, and shield communities from violent crime. This initiative relies on resources from the Department's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETFs) and Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN).
The investigation was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and sheriff offices in Collin, Dallas, and Tarrant counties. The prosecution was led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Wes Wynne.