EAST ST. LOUIS, Illinois, March 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois issued the following news release: A southern Illinois district judge sentenced an Arkansas man to 360 months' imprisonment for trafficking about 40 pounds of methamphetamine through the Metro East. Christopher Palmer, 40, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute meth, one count of possession of a firearm in fur  more