(Sioux City)– A Sutherland man has pled guilty to a federal meth charge.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa says 33-year-old Dustin Martinez entered the plea to a charge of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. He had previously been convicted in 2016 of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a school and possession with intent to distribute meth.
Evidence presented at a plea hearing indicated that from 2019 to about March 2021 Martinez and others distributed at least 250 grams of a methamphetamine mixture and 100 grams of pure meth. Court documents state that in March of 2020 and March of 2021 Martinez was in possession of about one ounce of methamphetamine which he intended to distribute.
Sentencing is pending completion of a presentence report.
The case was investigated by the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, Spencer Police Department, the O’Brien County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa DCI Laboratory.
