OAKLAND — A woman who allegedly cleared out fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine and a pill press from her home after discovering her husband dead, and then called 911, has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for fentanyl trafficking, court records show.
Fany Reanos-Moreno, 33, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Orrick on Feb. 5. She pleaded guilty to methamphetamine and fentanyl distribution charges, but her attorney argued in court that she was coerced into selling drugs by human smugglers who took advantage of her desperate situation. Reanos-Moreno came to the United States from Honduras, following threats against her family by the MS-13 gang.
“The smugglers promised Fany that a legitimate job was awaiting her in the Bay Area, but, when they arrived, they told her that there was no such job and that she had to sell drugs in order to repay them, resulting in numerous arrests (though no charges or convictions) for street-level drug dealing starting in August 2019,” according to a defense sentencing memo.
On April 28, 2024, Reanos-Moreno’s 22-year-old husband allegedly shot himself during an argument with Reanos-Moreno inside the couple’s Oakland home. She later admitted that she called several friends and family members to clean up a large amount of drugs and a pill press from the home before calling 911, according to authorities.
She was later charged in federal court with drug dealing. Prosecutors cast doubt on her story about coercion, pointing out that roughly $63,000 of suspected drug money was seized from her home in Oakland. Police later found half-ounces of several different drugs, including fentanyl, a ledger that dictated the per-kilogram price of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine, and several empty kilogram wraps believed to have once contained fentanyl inside the residence, according to court records.
“Assuming for the sake of argument that Defendant Moreno’s claim of indebtedness is accurate, the lack of information about the amount of the debt is important, because she does not explain how her years in the drug trade failed to pay it off,” according to a prosecution sentencing memo. “This enables (Reanos-Moreno) to rely on a suggestion that she trafficked drugs because of coercion, and not simply because it was lucrative. Here, however, the Court can credit instead the accuracy of the statement she made after her arrest — she was selling drugs to make money.”
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