Local man sentenced on meth charges

A Mountain Home man was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 21 months in prison for his role in planning to distribute methamphetamine.

Raul Garcia-Rosales, 39, pleaded guilty to charges of possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute the drug.

During the hearing, U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Garcia-Rosales to serve three years of supervised release.

Garcia-Rosales plead guilty to the charge last November.

According to the plea agreement, he admitted that he received approximately one pound of methamphetamine from his co-defendant, Jamie Guerrero, on Sept. 14, 2011.

The drug was then distributed to an undercover officer at a truck stop in Mountain Home, according to U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson.

Guerrero, 27, of Glenns Ferry, also pleaded guilty last November to charges of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

According to the plea agreement, Guerrero admitted that he supplied the methamphetamine to Garcia-Rosales.

Guerrero is scheduled for sentencing Aug. 26 before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Boise.

The case was the result of a joint investigation of the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force, led by the Idaho State Police and the Drug Enforcement Administration, in conjunction with the Elmore County Sheriff's Office. The task force is a federal multi agency, multi-jurisdictional task force that supplies supplemental federal funding to federal and state agencies involved in the identification, investigation, and prosecution of major drug trafficking organizations.

Federal task force members include the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; DEA; Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Marshals Service.