Sacramento man who pleaded guilty to federal narcotics, gun charges sentenced to 12 years

A Sacramento man who plead guilty to federal narcotics and weapons charges was sentenced today at U.S. Federal Court in Sacramento.

Ou Vern Saeturn, 26 of Sacramento received a 12-year sentence in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley. Saeturn plead guilty on February 22, 2022 to possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

According to court documents, on Sept. 6, 2018, law enforcement agents searched Saeteurn’s Oak Park home and found controlled substances or firearms in almost every room. In a bedroom closet, agents located about 1 kilogram of methamphetamine and about 1 kilogram of cocaine.

Additionally, law enforcement agents found two loaded firearms, additional ammunition, and about $9,400 in cash. In the rest of this home, officers found more methamphetamine, cocaine base, heroin, opium, about 16 firearms, magazines, and ammunition.

This case was the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Sacramento Sheriff’s Office, the Sacramento Police Department, the California Highway Patrol, the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, and Homeland Security Investigations.