Jose Sanchez Adame, Methamphetamine Trafficking, Iowa 2014

Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring Cracks Down in Marshalltown

The Grimy Times has learned that Jose Sanchez Adame, 40, of Marshalltown, Iowa, was sentenced to 216 months imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and distribution of methamphetamine.

Sentencing took place on April 18, 2014 before District Judge Stephanie M. Rose.

Adame was also ordered to serve a term of five years supervised release following the period of imprisonment, and to pay $200 to the Crime Victim Fund.

This case arose from a two-year investigation into the distribution of methamphetamine in the Marshalltown area. The organization, responsible for distributing large quantities of methamphetamine in and around Marshalltown from at least 2010 through 2012, was brought down by law enforcement.

During the investigation, $134,960 in bulk cash was seized during a traffic stop in Cass County, Iowa in March 2012. Other drug proceeds were funneled through bank deposits made in Iowa and withdrawn in California.

The investigation culminated in the arrests of ten individuals in Marshalltown and Ankeny, Iowa on November 20, 2012. The individuals, charged in December 2012 with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, included Jose Luis Sanchez Adame, Jose Sanchez Adame, Julian Marin Gutierrez, Antonio Cebrero Mendiola, Raymundo Sotel Calderon, Fidel Sanchez, Kyla Forbes, Shannon Fogle, James Buffington and Fernando Camacho.

José Sanchez Adame, Julian Marin Gutierrez, and Fidel Sanchez were convicted following a jury trial in November 2013. Fidel Sanchez, was sentenced to 108 months imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute and distribution of methamphetamine and ordered to serve five years supervised release, following the period of imprisonment, and to pay $600 to the Crime Victim Fund.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdia/pr/sentences-entered-final-two-defendants-marshalltown-methamphetamine-case