CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Dec. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2024: A man who committed a drug trafficking offense was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison. Darryl Fonte Jackson, age 51, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after a July 1, 2024 guilty plea to one count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. Evidence at the plea and sentencing hearings showed that, on July more PR

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Dec. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa issued the following news release: A Sioux Falls, South Dakota man and Guatemalan national was sentenced on November 26, 2024 to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a distribution quantity of methamphetamine and possessing a firearm as a felon and in relation to his drug trafficking. According to public court documents, Johny Fernando Diaz-Mendez, 47, was arrested in March 2024 and found in  more PR