{"id":58639,"date":"2025-07-12T04:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T04:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/58639\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T04:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T04:06:11","slug":"man-charged-in-connection-to-meth-distribution-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/58639\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged in connection to meth distribution in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 A man was charged on Tuesday in connection to selling over a 1,000 grams of methamphetamine in Phoenix in April, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Cruz, 36, a Mexican national, was charged by criminal complaint for distribution of a controlled substance, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-az\/pr\/mexican-national-arrested-selling-100-pure-methamphetamine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Arizona<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More details on Phoenix meth distribution case<\/p>\n<p>The criminal complaint alleges that Cruz met an undercover federal agent and another person in a business parking lot to sell them methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz provided the agent three pounds of methamphetamine in exchange for $2,700.<\/p>\n<p>Upon investigation, authorities learned that Cruz was a Mexican national and was in the U.S. illegally.<\/p>\n<p>The Cruz case is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/dag\/media\/1393746\/dl?inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Operation Take Back America<\/a>, a nationwide effort to combat violent crime and \u201cillegal immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Leasure96\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Leasure96<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We want to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">Have a story idea or tip? Pass it along to the KTAR News team <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/arizona-news\/man-meth-trafficking-phoenix\/5727539\/mailto:stories@ktar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 A man was charged on Tuesday in connection to selling over a 1,000 grams of methamphetamine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[7155,5229,5643,1587,316,1589,7154,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-58639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-92-3-ktar","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-and-arizona-breaking-news-and-news-headlines-home","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114838292826298452","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}