"President Trump this week pardoned a San Diego-area woman whose sentence he commuted during his first term but who shortly wound up back in prison for a different scheme. In 2016 a federal jury convicted Adriana Camberos and her then-husband, Joseph Shayota, on conspiracy charges in connection with an elaborate scheme to sell millions of bottles of counterfeit 5-Hour Energy shots in the United States."
"But her freedom proved fleeting. In 2024, Camberos and her brother, Andres, were convicted in a separate case that involved lying to manufacturers to purchase wholesale groceries and additional items at big discounts after pledging that they were meant for sale in Mexico or to prisoners or rehabilitation facilities. The siblings then instead sold the products at higher prices to U.S. distributors, prosecutors said."
President Trump pardoned Adriana Camberos, whose 2016 conviction for conspiring to sell counterfeit 5-Hour Energy shots was commuted in 2021. Camberos originally served about half of a 26-month sentence before the commutation. In 2024, Camberos and her brother Andres were convicted of a separate fraud scheme in which they lied to manufacturers to buy discounted wholesale groceries and other goods allegedly for sale in Mexico, prisons, or rehabilitation facilities, then resold them at higher prices to U.S. distributors. Prosecutors said the siblings used bank and mail fraud to generate millions in illegal profits that funded a lavish lifestyle.
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