A 31-year-old man will spend years in prison after he pleaded guilty to distributing methamphetamine.
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On December 12, 2023, Victor Uriel Diego Estrada, 31, of Michoacan, Mexico pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and one count of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
He was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release.
The prison sentence resulted from an investigation that began with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigating Estrada’s illegal drug activity in Walton County.
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According to court documents, this information developed from a confidential source (CS) who had ties to a Mexico-based drug broker with access to sources of supply of cocaine and meth in north Georgia.