A North Texas drug dealer will spend the next 19 years in prison for his role in a 2015 armed assault where he opened fire on undercover federal agents in southwest Dallas.
Edgar Solorzano, 24, was sentenced on Monday to serve 231 months, or 19 years and three months, in federal prison for repeatedly shooting at two Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) plainclothes officers. On April 7, he pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance; two counts of assault on a federal officer; and one count of using, carrying, brandishing and discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence stemming back to his actions in 2015. Solorzano has remained in police custody since his August 2016 arrest.
Back in 2015, his cousin and co-defendant, Victor Manuel Solorzano, 32, was under federal investigation for trafficking methamphetamines. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, the cousins lived across the street from each other in the west Oak Cliff section of Dallas. On November 19, the undercover officers drove a pickup truck to Victor Solorzano’s residence to install a court-ordered tracking device on his vehicle; however, Victor confronted them in the street with an AR-15 pistol and began shooting at the federal agents. Edgar Solorzano joined his cousin in ambushing the feds. He came armed with an AK-47 rifle. The cousins fired repeatedly at the HSI officers using these high-powered firearms, semi-automatic weapons, riddling the officers’ pickup truck with bullets.
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