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14-year sentence for Mexico native caught selling meth in Southwest Iowa

August 5, 2016 By O. Kay Henderson

GavelA 39-year-old Mexico City native has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for selling drugs in southwest Iowa.

In February, Jaime Castillo Gomez pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. This week, he was sentenced to federal prison. The Southwest Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force and other law enforcment agencies in the Omaha and Council Bluffs area monitored a drug selling ring and arrested Gomez and several others.

Gomez entered the U.S. illegally in 1996. Authorities say he wound up in Omaha about four years later. When Gomez was arrested, authorities found more than three pounds of meth and a shotgun.

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