Mexican Man Pleads Guilty to Meth Trafficking and Illegal Reentry
Antonio Garza-Gonzalez, 52, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and to returning to the United States after being removed.
2 reports on this incident · first at Sep 1, 2026, 3:15 a.m. ET
Earlier reports
Sep 1, 2026, 3:15 a.m. ETFirst report
Mexican Man Pleads Guilty to Meth Trafficking and Illegal Reentry
A Mexican man pleaded guilty on August 31, 2026, to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and one count of returning to the United States after being removed, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Mississippi.
Court documents state that in March and April 2026, law enforcement conducted three controlled purchases of methamphetamine from Antonio Garza-Gonzalez, also known as Antonio Gonzalez-Garza, 52, at his residence in Biloxi, Mississippi. A subsequent search of the residence recovered additional methamphetamine. In total, agents seized approximately 27.1 grams of methamphetamine, and Garza-Gonzalez admitted to purchasing and reselling methamphetamine and to being unlawfully present in the U.S. after a 2018 deportation.
Garza-Gonzalez faces a maximum penalty of 22 years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on January 14, 2027. A federal district judge will determine the sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Baxter Kruger and Acting Special Agent in Charge Matthew Wright of Homeland Security Investigations. The case was investigated by HSI and prosecuted by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Erica Rose. It is part of Operation Take Back America, a Department of Justice initiative targeting illegal immigration and transnational criminal organizations.
Was this report accurate and useful?
Sources
Revision history
- Version 11 Sept 2026, 07:22current
First published.
- Version 11 Sept 2026, 07:15current
First published.
How we work
This site models an investigative reporter rather than a wire desk. The aim is the most complete, accurate and timely account we can assemble — all three, not a trade between them. Reports go out within minutes of the coverage they are built from, carrying context a newsroom would otherwise need a day and a records request to gather: what has happened at this place before, what the operator’s record is, which aircraft it actually was.
Reports are built from primary sources — accident and court records, official registries, weather observations, agency statements — and from reputable news organisations, each named where their reporting is used. Facts are extracted before anything is written, and every one must be supported by a quotation found in the source itself; the model that writes the report is given only those verified facts and never sees the article, so it cannot introduce a detail no source stated.
Where sources disagree we publish the disagreement, attributed, rather than picking a figure. Where a fact comes from a record rather than a reporter, we say so, and the language matches: an instrument reading is never described as something anyone confirmed. Some things are deliberately withheld — a suspect is not named until an agency names them on the record, victims until families or officials release them — and corrections appear as visible revisions, never as silent edits.
None of that makes a report true. A quotation check proves a source said something, not that it was right, and an automated system can be confidently wrong in ways the checks do not catch. If something here is wrong, the feedback above is how it gets found. The full methodology, including what we refuse to publish.