A Waterloo woman has been sentenced to two years in federal prison after admitting she planned to distribute nearly a kilogram of methamphetamine.
Twenty-one-year-old Sylvia Rubio-Rincon was sentenced November 20th after pleading guilty in June to possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. Prosecutors say undercover agents had been communicating with a suspected meth source in Mexico and arranged the delivery of almost a kilogram of meth.
As Rubio-Rincon drove to meet an undercover officer, investigators stopped her vehicle and found more than 900 grams of methamphetamine. She told officers she had been paid by a family member in Mexico to deliver the drugs…