Eagle Passan Jesus Rogelio Olivas indicted by federal grand jury for drug charges

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc.

United States Attorney Robert Pitman for the Western District of Texas announced that a San Antonio, Texas federal grand jury indicted Eagle Passan Jesus Rogelio Olivas on two counts for possession and conspiracy to possess controlled substance on July 9, 2014.

According to the criminal indictment in United States of America v. Jesus Rogelio Olivas, Cause No. SA14CR517, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division, Olivas is charged in Count One with “on or about February 13, 2014, knowingly and intentionally possessed, and aided and abetted the possession, with intent to distribute a controlled substance, which offense involved 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, a Schedule II Controlled Substance, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A)(viii) and Title 18, United States Code, Section 2.”

Count Two charges Olivas with “beginning on or about November 1, 2013 and continuing up to and including the date of this indictment, in the Western District of Texas, Defendant Jesus Rogelio Olivas knowingly, intentionally, and unlawfully conspired, combined, confederated, and agreed with others to the Grand Jury known and unknown, to commit offenses against the United States, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846, that is to say, they conspired to possess a controlled substance, which offense involved 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, a Schedule II Controlled Substance, with intent to distribute same, contrary to Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846 and 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A)(viii).”

Olivas was arrested earlier this week in Eagle Pass, Texas by U.S. Marshal and U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agents without any incident.

An indictment is merely allegations against a Defendant and is not evidence of a Defendant’s guilt. Under the United States Constitution, all accused Defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.