SPRINGFIELD, MO – The U.S justice department sentenced a Mexican national Thursday in federal court for illegal drug distribution.
Law enforcement executing a June 2016 search warrant at a hotel in Joplin seized three pounds of methamphetamine, and a firearm used for the furtherance of drug trafficking. A sentence of 15 years in prison was pronounced on Sergio Diaz-Ortiz, 33. Meth supplied by Diaz-Ortiz also passed through the hands of Justin Thurston of Joplin, and Casey Simpson of Carthage. they were each sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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