28-Year-Old Sentenced on Drug and Firearm Charges

DOJ Press

Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Daniel Rojas, 28, was sentenced on June 2, 2022, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, as an addict in possession of a firearm and for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine.  United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Rojas to 87 months’ imprisonment.  There is no parole in the federal system.  After his release from prison, he will begin a 5-year term of supervised release.  

On July 3, 2020, law enforcement received information that drugs were being sold out of the Aksarben Suites located on Cedar Street in Omaha.  While conducting surveillance, officers observed a Mercedes leave the parking lot of the Aksarben Suites and commit a traffic violation.  During a traffic stop, officers observed Rojas leaning forward in an awkward position. A K-9 alerted to the scent of drugs on the passenger side front window of the car.

Upon searching the car and a black bag located under the front passenger seat, officers found a .40 caliber Smith and Wesson SD40 firearm and approximately 1 gram of methamphetamine. At the time Rojas possessed the firearm he was a drug user. 

On November 16, 2020, Rojas was arrested on federal charges stemming from the possession of the Smith and Wesson firearm on July 3, 2020.  At the time of his arrest, Rojas admitted to possessing methamphetamine in a white Buick parked nearby. Over 100 grams of methamphetamine were recovered from Rojas’s car.  


This case was investigated by the Omaha Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration, Omaha Field Division.  This case was part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. The Department of Justice reinvigorated PSN in 2017 as part of the Department’s renewed focus on targeting violent criminals, directing all U.S. Attorney’s Offices to work in partnership with federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement and the local community to develop effective, locally based strategies to reduce violent crime.


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