Highlights
- Pamela Esquivias, 25, of Maricopa was sentenced Thursday to nearly 22 years in federal prison.
- Prosecutors tied her fentanyl distribution network to the August 2023 death of a 16-year-old girl in Flower Mound, Texas.
- Esquivias supplied hundreds of thousands of blue M-30 fentanyl pills shipped from Arizona to multiple states, including Texas.
- Dallas-area distributor Aaron Jay Perez, 29, received a concurrent 10-year federal sentence in the same case.
A Maricopa woman will spend more than two decades in federal prison for her role in a fentanyl distribution network that killed a 16-year-old girl in a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb three years ago.
Pamela Esquivias, 25, was sentenced Thursday to nearly 22 years in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Texas. She had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl.
The case centers on the August 2023 death of a 16-year-old girl in Flower Mound, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, who died after taking a counterfeit oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl. Investigators identified Esquivias as the supplier, finding she had distributed hundreds of thousands of blue M-30 fentanyl pills from Arizona to multiple states, including Texas.
The investigation also ensnared Aaron Jay Perez, 29, of Dallas, who served as the distributor in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Perez sold fentanyl along with large amounts of marijuana and cocaine. He pleaded guilty to the same conspiracy charge and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, WFAA reported.
The case was part of a Homeland Security Task Force investigation, according to the Justice Department.
Sentencing records are on file with the Eastern District of Texas federal court.
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- justice.gov retrieved 17/09/2026 21:53
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