Drug Traffickers Sentenced to Lengthy Prison Terms in Houston and Virginia

Jason Curtis Caldwell has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for running a multi-drug distribution operation out of his car shop in Houston. Caldwell pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and was found to have sold kilogram amounts of meth and counterfeit opiate pills containing fentanyl. He supplied meth to another individual who distributed counterfeit opiate pills containing meth, and also sold counterfeit pills to two other individuals. Caldwell was released on bond after his initial arrest but has now been taken into custody pending transfer to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility.