Glenns Ferry man sentenced for drug trafficking

A Glenns Ferry man was sentenced to 53 months in prison on federal drug charges during a sentencing hearing Aug. 27 at the U.S. District Courthouse in Boise.

Jaime Guerrero, 27, was convicted of possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute the drug.

During last week's hearing, U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Guerrero to serve five years of supervised release, 80 hours of community service and pay a $100 special assessment. He pleaded guilty to the charge on Nov. 27.

In June, co-defendant Raul Garcia-Rosales of Mountain Home was sentenced to 21 months in prison on the same federal charges.

According to plea agreements filed in the case, Garcia-Rosales admitted that he received approximately one pound of methamphetamine from co-defendant Jamie Guerrero in Elmore County on Sept. 14, 2011. They then distributed it to an undercover officer at a truck stop in Mountain Home.

Guerrero admitted that he supplied the methamphetamine to Garcia-Rosales. Both men acknowledged the substance they were distributing was methamphetamine.

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 program 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, the DEA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations, and U.S. Marshals Service.