Overview
- Gerardo Solorio-Alvarado was indicted on conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute, and a criminal complaint charges Nelson Enrique Sorto with possession with intent to distribute.
- Agents recovered about 924 pounds from a truck outside a southeast Atlanta home and about 661 pounds from a truck at a Gainesville gas station, both hidden among pallets of blackberries.
- Investigators tracked the trucks from a Fulton County cold storage site and later located a third truck that had been emptied, with its driver turned over to immigration authorities.
- Solorio-Alvarado previously served 17 years in federal prison for drug and firearm offenses and is unlawfully present in the U.S., while Sorto is on probation for a 2024 meth possession conviction.
- The FBI, GBI and the Hall County Sheriff’s Office are leading an ongoing investigation valued in the tens of millions of dollars under DOJ initiatives, with the defendants moving to federal custody as prosecutors seek their detention.