A Dallas woman was sentenced Wednesday to a little over 12 years in prison on federal drug and firearm charges, authorities said.
U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr sentenced Danette Ozuna, 48, to 151 months in federal prison. She was indicted in 2022 and pleaded guilty last year to one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas said in a news release.
An attorney representing Ozuna declined to comment on the sentencing.
Authorities wrote in the release that a confidential informant bought methamphetamine multiple times in March 2022 from Ozuna at the Star Motel in east Oak Cliff. Two months after the purchases, authorities, with a warrant, searched the hotel and found Ozuna in one of the rooms.
While authorities were arresting her, she said there was a handgun under a pillow on the bed, the release said. According to an indictment, Ozuna had a 9 mm Glock.
In the room, authorities found a handgun, drug ledger, a bank bag with about $7,000 and a red bag with methamphetamine. Officers found more methamphetamine in a nightstand drawer, the release said.
Prosecutors mentioned in a sentencing hearing there were listed rules for drug purchases outside of the motel room, the release said. The rules listed rates for a certain number of drugs and added that “what you have [money] for is what you will get — no extra, no fronts.”
“If you owe me money you will not get more until debt is cleared,” one of the rules said.
Ozuna faced the federal firearms charge because she was convicted in 2014 of a felony in Kaufman County and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, making it a federal crime for her to possess a firearm, according to the release.
The Drug Enforcement Administration, Kaufman County Sheriff’s Department and the Dallas Police Department conducted the investigation.