Extradited Honduran Man Sentenced To Five Years In Federal Prison For Fentanyl Trafficking

OAKLAND - A Honduran national who was extradited to the United States to face fentanyl trafficking charges has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. handed down the sentence today.

Javier Marin-Gonzales, 26, was indicted by a federal grand jury on August 2, 2023, for distributing fentanyl on three separate occasions. The investigation also led to charges and convictions against two other East Bay-based defendants who traveled to San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood to engage in fentanyl trafficking.

At the time of the indictment, the FBI learned that Marin-Gonzales had traveled back to Honduras. The Justice Department's Office of International Affairs worked with Honduran authorities, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to secure the arrest and extradition of Marin-Gonzales.

Marin-Gonzales pleaded guilty on Dec. 17, 2025, to distributing 40 grams or more of fentanyl. In pleading guilty, Marin-Gonzales admitted that beginning as early as July 2022, he began selling fentanyl in the Bay Area as one of the ways he earned income. On three separate occasions in 2022, he sold a total of 690.4 grams of fentanyl to a buyer at various locations in Oakland.

United States Attorney Craig H. Missakian, FBI Special Agent in Charge Sanjay Virmani, and DEA Special Agent in Charge Bob P. Beris made the announcement.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Gilliam also sentenced the defendant to a four-year period of supervised release and ordered him to pay a $100 special assessment.

This prosecution is part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The HSTF is a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad. Through historic interagency collaboration, the HSTF directs the full might of United States law enforcement towards identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the full spectrum of crimes committed by these organizations, which have long fueled violence and instability within our borders. In performing this work, the HSTF places special emphasis on investigating and prosecuting those engaged in child trafficking or other crimes involving children. The HSTF further utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States. HSTF San Francisco comprises agents and officers from FBI and IRS, with the prosecution being led by the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Charles Bisesto and Ben Wolinsky are prosecuting the case with the assistance of Sara Slattery and Andy Ding. The prosecution is the result of an investigation by the FBI SAFE Streets Task Force, DEA, and the Concord Police Department.