A Dallas drug trafficker whose operation erupted into gunfire aimed at an undercover federal officer has been ordered to spend 30 years in federal prison.
Angel Flores, 36, was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade after prosecutors said his role in a violent drug-trafficking scheme escalated into an attempted ambush of federal agents. The case is one of several recent federal moves against large-scale heroin and meth distribution in North Texas.
According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Texas, Flores was sentenced on Wednesday for assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon and conspiring to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin. Court records described in the release say Flores sold undercover agents a kilogram of heroin for $7,200 in late 2024 and kept moving kilogram quantities of methamphetamine until his arrest on May 21, 2025. Prosecutors say Flores and co-conspirators even lined up a two-kilogram meth sale on May 20, the day before FBI SWAT took him into custody.
"Angel Flores was not only a drug trafficker who poisoned our communities with massive amounts of deadly heroin and methamphetamine," U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould said, calling him "a predator" who had been removed from the streets. FBI Dallas and DEA Dallas officials praised the multi-agency investigation and said the Homeland Security Task Force will keep zeroing in on violent traffickers. The U.S. Attorney’s Office release also notes that First Assistant U.S. Attorney Courtney L. Coker prosecuted the case.
How Investigators Say It Unfolded
Investigators say Flores and 42-year-old Andres Saucedo Jr. plotted on May 19, 2025, to rob another trafficker of 30 to 40 kilograms of methamphetamine. While they were under surveillance, Saucedo allegedly opened fire on an undercover FBI Task Force officer, according to federal authorities. The officer was not hit.
As reported by The Dallas Morning News, Saucedo was arrested on June 4, 2025, and charged with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and assaulting a federal agent with a deadly weapon. Earlier reporting on the initial federal complaint was summarized in a crackdown on drug violence feature.
Prosecution And Task-Force Context
The case was built by the OCDETF North Texas Strike Force, which federal materials now describe as the Homeland Security Task Force, and, according to MyTexasDaily, included task-force members from the DEA, FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, and multiple local police departments. Prosecutors say First Assistant U.S. Attorney Courtney L. Coker handled the prosecution. The operation falls under the HSTF initiative created by Executive Order 14159, which directs the establishment of Homeland Security Task Forces in every state; an executive order from the White House lays out that framework.
Federal officials cast Flores’s 30-year term as part of a broader effort to pull violent distributors out of North Texas’s drug supply chain, and local reporting says co-defendant Andres Saucedo Jr. remains in federal custody on related charges. Court records indicate Flores will be transferred to federal custody to begin serving his sentence.
