A U-S District Court Judge in Council Bluffs, Friday, sentenced a Cass County woman to nearly 11.5 years in prison. 21-year old Selena Marie Hansen, of Atlantic, appeared in federal court before United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger and was sentenced to 135 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.

The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa, said Hansen, along with her co-defendant Michael Beltran, distributed methamphetamine in Southwest Iowa from January to April 2016. The methamphetamine was imported into the United States disguised as candy. An investigation of the conspiracy began when a package of “candy” was delivered to an empty residence in Bedford, and was recovered by law enforcement. During the course of the conspiracy, over 500 grams of methamphetamine was distributed by Hansen and Beltran in Cass, Mills, Page, and Taylor Counties in Iowa.

The investigation was conducted by the Cass, Mills, Page, and Taylor County Sheriffs’ Offices; Southwest Iowa Narcotics Task Force; and Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.