Timothy T. Duax U.S. Attorney | U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa
A Marshalltown man has been sentenced to more than twelve years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
Marcos Servin, 23, was stopped by law enforcement officers on October 23, 2024. During the stop, a narcotic detection dog alerted officers to the presence of drugs in his vehicle. Officers found over 900 grams of ice methamphetamine in the car. Later that day, officers searched a home in Des Moines that Servin had visited earlier and discovered an additional 1,900 grams of ice methamphetamine inside.
Servin entered a guilty plea on September 3, 2025. On January 28, 2026, United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams sentenced him in Cedar Rapids to 151 months in prison. Servin will also serve five years of supervised release after completing his sentence. There is no parole in the federal system.
Servin is currently held by the United States Marshal’s Service until he is transferred to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Special Assistant United States Attorney Michael Hudson and investigated by several agencies: the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, Mid-Iowa Drug Task Force, Iowa State Patrol, and Tri-County Drug Enforcement Task Force—which includes local police departments and sheriff’s offices from Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Black Hawk County, Evansdale, Waverly, Hudson (Iowa), La Porte City, and Bremer County.
