SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A Stockton man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, and a Lodi man has pleaded guilty for their involvement in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy.
The United States Department of Justice says that U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced 40-year-old Jose Manuel Ontiveros Verdugo of Stockton to 16 years in prison for conspiring to distribute and possess methamphetamine. On the same day, 47-year-old Jorge Omar Arredondo-Garcia of Lodi pleaded guilty to the same offense, said Acting U.S. Attorney. Kimberly A. Sanchez.
Court documents revealed that between July 2019 and December 2019, Verdugo and Arredondo-Garcia conspired with others to distribute methamphetamine throughout Stockton and the country…