BUSTED: Phoenix Drug Kingpin Caught Red-Handed with MASSIVE Fentanyl Stash!
Miguel Angel Gaytan-Ramirez, a 34-year-old undocumented Mexican national, was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison after admitting to a massive fentanyl conspiracy.
A high-stakes DEA sting just took down a major fentanyl trafficker operating in Phoenix, and the details will leave you stunned.
Miguel Angel Gaytan-Ramirez, a 34-year-old undocumented Mexican national, was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison after admitting to a massive fentanyl conspiracy. His crime? Pushing deadly fentanyl by the kilogram—enough to poison an entire city.
It all unraveled on January 25, 2024, when an undercover DEA agent orchestrated a sting operation straight out of a Hollywood thriller. The agent negotiated a deal with a Mexican drug cartel to buy 150,000 fentanyl pills—a staggering 15 kilograms of poison. The cartel’s instructions? Meet in a Phoenix parking lot for the handoff.
That’s when investigators zeroed in on a Dodge Ram pickup truck—and the man behind the wheel was none other than Gaytan-Ramirez. He called the agent, confirmed he was in the truck, and within moments, law enforcement swooped in and took him down.
But the nightmare didn’t end there.
Investigators tracked down a nearby stash house, where Gaytan-Ramirez had been hoarding a shocking amount of narcotics. Inside a closet, authorities discovered:
74.9 pounds of fentanyl pills
17.6 pounds of fentanyl powder
41.9 pounds of cocaine
A fully equipped assault rifle
And if that wasn’t enough, they also seized over $18,000 in dirty drug money from his vehicle and the stash house.
This case, led by the DEA’s Phoenix East Valley Drug Enforcement Task Force, is yet another chilling example of how cartels are flooding American streets with deadly fentanyl—and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Gaytan-Ramirez will now spend over a decade behind bars, but the fight against cartel-driven fentanyl trafficking is far from over.