The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Fredis Amilcar Guiza Hernandez, 35, a Honduran national, was sentenced to 37 months in prison for one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
The charge arose from an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Sequoyah County Sheriff ’s Office.
On Sept. 15, 2025, Guiza Hernandez pleaded guilty in federal district court to knowingly and intentionally possessing 500 grams or more of cocaine, a Schedule II controlled substance, with intent to distribute it.
According to investigators, on Oct. 6, 2024, Sequoyah County Sheriff ’s deputies conducting a routine traffic stop on Interstate-40 arrested Guiza Hernandez after discovering him in possession of four kilograms of cocaine.
The Honorable Raúl M. Arias-Marxuach, Chief Judge in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, sitting by assignment, presided over the hearing.
Guiza Hernandez will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jordan Howanitz represented the United States.
