A Shenandoah man was sentenced on Wednesday in District Court for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine.  United States Attorney Nicholas Klinefeldt announced that 41-year-old James Jayson Davis of Shenandoah was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 183 months in prison. He was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release following his jail time.

Davis entered a guilty plea on February 5th of 2015 to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine from September 2013 up to July of 2014. The plea resulted from a year-long investigation into drug trafficking in Southwestern Iowa by a group that included Davis and his cousin, James Paul Davis. James Paul Davis was sentenced to 192 months in prison on July 27, 2015, by Judge Gritzner. The investigation showed that methamphetamine was being transported to Southwestern Iowa from the border region in Texas in pound quantities for distribution from Page County, across Southwestern Iowa and into Eastern Nebraska.

The investigation was conducted by the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, Page County Sheriff’s Office, Shenandoah, Iowa Police Department, Mills County Sheriff’s Office, Southwest Iowa Narcotics Task Force, Omaha, Nebraska Police Department, Metro Area Fugitive Task Force, and the United States Marshal’s Service for the Southern District of Iowa.

The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.