Carson Fries, 34, of Bay Point, was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison for methamphetamine trafficking. U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. also imposed four years of supervised release.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 2 min read
Eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge at night. Photo: Daniel L. Lu / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
Carson Fries, 34, of Bay Point, was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison for methamphetamine trafficking. U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. also imposed four years of supervised release.
Fries pleaded guilty July 29. Prosecutors said he admitted three sales in Bay Point between Aug. 29 and Sept. 9, 2025, each involving roughly half a kilogram of methamphetamine.
KRON4 reported that a search of his residence recovered an additional 160 grams of methamphetamine, 33 firearms and ammunition. The federal announcement, published by the Contra Costa Herald, said the case resulted from an investigation by the DEA and Concord police.
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