(Source: ATF - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Mexican national in Sugarland, Texas, was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in the Joplin area. Israel Belmontes-Cisneros, 34, a citizen of Mexico residing in Sugarland, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to 20 years in federal prison without parole. According to court documents, Belmontes-Cisneros was part of a drug-trafficking organization identified as a major source of supply in the Joplin, Mo., area as a result of a year-long,...
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