Mexican trafficker Orfael Macedo Bustos pleaded guilty to supplying more than 170 pounds of cocaine to metro Atlanta and faces up to life in prison.
A Mexican national accused of supplying large quantities of cocaine to the Atlanta area has admitted his role in a trafficking operation that moved more than 170 pounds of the drug into Georgia.
Orfael Macedo Bustos, 52, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Prosecutors say he was part of an organization that shipped cocaine from Mexico into the United States before it was distributed across the Atlanta metropolitan area.
The case dates back to 2017, when federal investigators began tracking a cocaine trafficking network operating in Georgia. Over the course of the investigation, agents intercepted five separate shipments, recovering more than 170 pounds of cocaine before it could reach the streets.
The largest seizures included 44-pound shipments recovered in Fulton County in October 2017 and February 2018. Investigators also seized 30 pounds in November 2017, 33 pounds in Cobb County in April 2018 and another 22 pounds in Fulton County later that year.
According to court documents, the cocaine was transported from Mexico in tractor-trailers before being distributed to buyers in the Atlanta area.
Macedo Bustos was indicted in the United States but remained in Mexico until he was extradited in November 2025. Since then, he has been held in federal custody while the case moved through the court system.
He is scheduled to be sentenced on October 15, 2026, before U.S. District Judge William M. Ray II. The charges carry a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years, although he could receive a longer sentence when he returns to court.
The guilty plea marks another conviction stemming from the years-long investigation, which involved multiple U.S. law enforcement agencies working alongside Mexican authorities to dismantle the trafficking network responsible for moving cocaine into Georgia.
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