A man who admitted selling drugs in the Northern District of
Iowa was sentenced today to more than 19 ½ years in federal prison.
David Anthony Vargas, age 48, from Winthrop, Iowa, received
the prison term after a September 3, 2019, guilty plea to conspiracy to
distribute a controlled substance.
In a plea agreement, Vargas admitted he worked with at least
one other person to distribute methamphetamine in the Northern District of Iowa
and elsewhere. Vargas admitted selling
drugs to another person on three occasions totaling more than 180 grams of pure
methamphetamine. Officers recovered
another 386.2 grams of pure methamphetamine in Vargas’s possession when he was
arrested in Burlington, Iowa, and additional methamphetamine at his residence
in Winthrop, Iowa. Vargas was previously
convicted in state court of possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine
in 2007.
Vargas was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States
District Court Judge C.J. Williams.
Vargas was sentenced to 235 months’ imprisonment. He must also serve a ten-year term of
supervised release after the prison term.
There is no parole in the federal system.
Vargas is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody
until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney
Emily K. Nydle and investigated by the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement,
the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Department, the Dubuque County Sheriff’s
Department, the Independence Police Department, the Iowa State Patrol, the
Oelwein Police Department, the Urbana Police Department, the Des Moines County
Sheriff’s Department, the Tri-County Drug Task Force, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
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