A Glendale man, Jacob Matthew Medina, was sentenced to 160 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to possess fentanyl and heroin with intent to distribute. Medina worked with an Internet-based drug trafficking operation.
In November 2018, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service began an investigation of Darknet vendor “Ghost831,” who advertised heroin, methamphetamine, and oxycodone for sale on the Internet. On March 4, 2019, after identifying drug packages mailed by the vendor, investigators executed a federal search warrant at Medina’s residence in Glendale.
Medina admitted that he had $31,000 in cash, a firearm, customer lists, package tracking numbers, 502 grams of counterfeit “M30” pills containing fentanyl, and over a pound of heroin in his residence.
One of the customers on the list suffered a fatal drug overdose.