(Sioux City)– A Cherokee man has pled guilty to a federal drug charge.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 36-year-old Dustin Coates was convicted of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, after having been previously convicted in 2013 of distribution of a controlled substance in district court in South Dakota.
At a plea hearing Coates admitted to being involved in a conspiracy that distributed at least 150 grams of pure meth from March, 2021 through March 8th, 2022. Court documents state that on March 8th, 2022, law enforcement conducted a traffic stop and that Coates threw two baggies of methamphetamine from his person while attempting to flee on foot. He also admitted that he planned to distribute more than 60 grams of the drug to others.
Sentencing is pending completion of a pre-sentence report.
