COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On May 12, 2017, Frank Moises Torres, age 31, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge Robert W. Pratt to 120 months in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Torres will also be required to serve a five-year term of supervised release following his imprisonment.
On January 4, 2017, Torres pleaded guilty to the charge and admitted that he participated in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in the Southern District of Iowa beginning as early as October of 2016. A drug trafficking law enforcement investigation led to the charge in Omaha, Nebraska, Council Bluffs and southwest Iowa.
The Southwest Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and the Pottawattamie County Attorney’s Office conducted the investigation. This case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.
Learn more about this release by calling Rachel J. Scherle at 515-473-9300, or by emailing her at Rachel.Scherle@usdoj.gov.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
