A man from Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced in federal court in Boston for his role in delivering truckloads of fentanyl and cocaine and then laundering the proceeds.
According to a press release from the Massachusetts Department of Justice, 38-year-old Reginel Cazares, also known as “Junior,” was sentenced to 160 months in prison by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Denise Casper, followed by five years of supervised release. Cazares pleaded guilty in January 2026 to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute prohibited narcotics (400 grams or more of fentanyl and five kilos or more of cocaine), as well as money laundering conspiracy. Cazares was indicted on June 13, 2024.
In August 2023, law enforcement discovered about “Junior”—later identified as Cazares – a Tucson, Ariz., resident who orchestrated multi-kilogram fentanyl and cocaine delivery from California to Massachusetts. The kilograms were transported by tractor trailer from Ontario, California, to Massachusetts. In November and December 2023, Cazares commanded a cooperating witness to collect $600.00 in cocaine revenues from two co-defendants in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. On February 16, 2024, Cazares told the cooperating witness to pick up four kilos of fentanyl and nine kilograms of cocaine in Ontario, California, to be transported to Massachusetts and the Carolinas. The drugs were intercepted by law enforcement.
Cazares was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison after being found guilty of cocaine conspiracy in the District of New Jersey in 2012.
United States Attorney Leah Foley and Jarod Forget, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Field Division, delivered the announcements. The Riverside (Calif.), Bakersfield (Calif.), and Tucson (Ariz.) DEA offices, as well as the San Bernadino County (Calif.) Sheriff’s Department, the Inland Regional Narcotics Enforcement Team, the Methuen Police Department, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement, and Removal Operations, all provided valuable assistance. Samuel R. Feldman, an Assistant United States Attorney in the Narcotics and Money Laundering Unit, prosecuted the case.
This lawsuit is part of the Homeland Security Task Force project launched under Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People from Invasion. The HSTF is a government-wide effort to combat criminal cartels, international gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and overseas.
The details in the charge filings are allegations. The remaining defendants are assumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in court.
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