{"id":38365,"date":"2025-08-21T11:14:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=38365"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:14:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:14:02","slug":"arizona-man-ignacio-miguel-tirado-castillo-charged-with-trafficking-carfentanil-into-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/08\/21\/arizona-man-ignacio-miguel-tirado-castillo-charged-with-trafficking-carfentanil-into-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Man, Ignacio Miguel Tirado-Castillo, Charged with Trafficking Carfentanil into Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Carfentanil is 100 times more potent than fentanyl; two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal, according to the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). It is a synthetic opioid originally developed for veterinary use, more specifically to tranquilize large animals, such as elephants.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u20138\/20\/25 &#8211; An indictment charging an Arizona man in a drug trafficking conspiracy has been unsealed, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona.<\/p>\n<p>A two-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court charges\u00a0Ignacio Miguel Tirado-Castillo, 19, with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a fentanyl analogue and attempt to distribute a fentanyl analogue in December 2024. Castillo was arrested August 11, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona, and was ordered detained in this case late last week. Evidence at the detention hearing revealed that Tirado-Castillo is alleged to have mailed approximately 25 pounds of carfentanil to Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum penalty for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a fentanyl analogue and attempt to distribute a fentanyl analogue is life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>This case was investigated and prosecuted by the Alabama Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) as part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/dag\/media\/1393746\/dl?inline\" data-once=\"doj-analytics\">Operation Take Back America<\/a>. HSTFs, which were established by President Trump in Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, are joint operations led by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security. Operation Take Back America is a nationwide federal initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime. Operation Take Back America streamlines efforts and resources from the Department\u2019s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETFs) and Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN).<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Postal Service investigated the case along with the Birmingham Police Department and Jefferson County Sheriff\u2019s Office.\u00a0 Assistant U.S. Attorney Allison J. Garnett is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n<p>An indictment contains only charges.\u00a0 Defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-33705\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carfentanil is 100 times more potent than fentanyl; two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal, according to the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). It is a synthetic opioid originally developed for veterinary use, more specifically to tranquilize large animals, such as elephants. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u20138\/20\/25 &#8211; An indictment charging an Arizona man in a drug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38366,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38365\/revisions\/38366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}