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Orlando, Florida – Denisse Munoz-Mora, 31, a Mexican national, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison following her October 25, 2023, guilty plea to possession with the intent to distribute heroin through her involvement with a heroin distribution network in 2019.

Key Points

• Court documents revealed that Munoz-Mora worked with a contact in Mexico who coordinated heroin deliveries to her co-conspirator, Irving Cepeda-Chico, who had previously been sentenced in 2021 to 14 years for distributing heroin and fentanyl-laced heroin, leading to a drug poisoning death.
• On August 4, 2019, Munoz-Mora was caught delivering 377 grams of heroin to Cepeda-Chico at a hotel near Orlando International Airport.
• She admitted to being paid $3,000 to transport the heroin from Mexico, through California, and then to Orlando, acknowledging she had done this previously.
• After being indicted, Munoz-Mora fled to Mexico but contacted the U.S. Attorney’s Office and DEA in 2020, challenging the charges against her while refusing to surrender.
• Munoz-Mora was eventually re-arrested in 2023 while crossing the border from Mexico, leading to her recent sentencing.