(Sioux City)– A Cherokee man has been sentenced on a federal drug charge. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 36-year-old Dustin Coates was sentenced March 7th to 180 months’ imprisonment.
Coates had been convicted on a charge of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Federal prosecutors say it stems from a traffic stop on March 8th, 2022, during which he threw two baggies of methamphetamine he had stashed on himself while attempting to flee officers on foot.
They say Coates had been involved in a conspiracy that distributed at least 1.4 kilograms of meth, including 150 grams of pure methamphetamine, between March, 2021 and March, 2022.
