GALVESTON, Texas – A 28-year-old resident of Webster has been sentenced in a meth conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
Omar Lopez III pleaded guilty Feb. 15 to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five or more grams of meth or 50 or more grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of meth.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown has now ordered him to serve a total of 174 months in federal prison.
The investigation focused upon a group of meth distributors and their source of drugs who operated in Galveston County.
Lopez worked within the drug trafficking organization by supplying meth others had distributed.
He will report to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility to be determined in the near future.
The Drug Enforcement Administration conducted the investigation with the assistance of the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office and Galveston Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Cusick is prosecuting the case.
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