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Mexico City Man Sentenced to 168 Months in Prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine in western IA

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August 3rd, 2016 by Ric Hanson

The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa reports 39-year old Jaime Castillo Gomez, of Mexico City, MX, was sentenced today (Wednesday) to serve 14-years in prison for his role in the trafficking of meth in western Iowa. Senior United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner also ordered Gomez to serve a five year term of supervised release, to follow his imprisonment.

On February 26th, 2016, Castillo Gomez pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, which was the result of an investigation by law enforcement of methamphetamine trafficking that occurred in the Omaha-Council Bluffs metro area for over a one-year time period. Beginning at least as early as November of 2014, and continuing through September of 2015, Castillo Gomez conspired with multiple other individuals to distribute at least 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine in the Southern District of Iowa and elsewhere.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Greater Omaha Safe Streets Task Force and the Southwest Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force. This case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.