MISSOULA, Mont. (NMB) – A Sinaloa, Mexico, man, who admitted to conducting meth trafficking and money laundering activities in the Butte area, was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release.
Humberto Horiol Medina Villarreal, 34, pleaded guilty on March 25th to possession with intent to distribute meth and to conspiracy to commit money laundering.
U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen presided.
The government alleged in court documents that from about July 2017 until August 2020 in Butte, Villarreal and others were involved in drug trafficking. An undercover law enforcement agent ordered a pound of meth directly from Villarreal.
The government also alleged that Villarreal conspired to launder money and directed others to wire money from Montana to California, and elsewhere, to pay for and fund the purchase of additional meth and other drugs.
Villarreal’s two co-defendants have been convicted of drug trafficking crimes and sentenced. Charles Joshua Petty, of Butte, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, while Shawn James Miller, of Deer Lodge, was sentenced to five years in prison.
