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Iowa U.S. Attorney: South Dakota Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Firearm and Drug Charges
December 05, 2024
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Dec. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa issued the following news release:

A Sioux Falls, South Dakota man and Guatemalan national was sentenced on November 26, 2024 to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a distribution quantity of methamphetamine and possessing a firearm as a felon and in relation to his drug trafficking.

According to public court documents, Johny Fernando Diaz-Mendez, 47, was arrested in . . .

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