SACRAMENTO — A federal grand jury has indicted three Central Valley men on charges that they used the U.S. Mail to ship methamphetamine and other drugs across the country as part of a large‑scale trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced Friday.
Jose Mendoza, 35, of Merced; Jessy Johnson, 34, of Turlock; and Alejandro Perez, 43, of Crows Landing, were charged in an eight‑count indictment alleging conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and multiple drug‑trafficking offenses.
According to court documents, investigators seized more than 100 parcels mailed by the organization. The packages contained methamphetamine, cocaine, MDMA, ketamine, LSD and psilocybin mushrooms.
On March 26, 2026, officers from multiple agencies arrested the defendants and executed search warrants at several locations linked to them. One site — a warehouse in Turlock — was being used as a stash location, prosecutors said. Inside, agents found three pill presses, pans of powders used to manufacture counterfeit pills laced with controlled substances, and about one million pills containing suspected methamphetamine.
Agents also recovered cocaine, alprazolam (Xanax), MDMA, psilocybin mushrooms and THC products from the warehouse and other locations under the defendants’ control, according to the indictment.
Investigators additionally seized about $150,000 in cash and located multiple electronic wallets believed to contain cryptocurrency proceeds from drug sales. To date, more than $400,000 in cryptocurrency has been seized from wallets tied to the defendants, prosecutors said.
The case is the result of an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the San Joaquin County Metropolitan Narcotics Task Force, Homeland Security Investigations, the Stockton Police Department, the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office, the Manteca Police Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Charles Campbell and Kevin Khasigian are prosecuting.
If convicted, the defendants face a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life, along with a $10 million fine. Sentences would be determined by a federal judge after considering statutory factors and the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.
The charges are allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Prosecutors said the case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide Department of Justice initiative targeting cartels, transnational criminal organizations and drug‑trafficking networks.
