Oklahoma Man To Spend 300 Months In Prison For Distributing Methamphetamine In Missouri

An Oklahoma City man will spend 300 months in federal prison without parole and forfeit $210,000 in drug proceeds to the government after being sentenced this week for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in southwest Missouri.

37-year-old Edward Uribe pleaded guilty in November to one count each of money laundering and conspiracy to distribute meth in Barry, Stone, Polk, Lawrence, Greene, Jasper and Newton counties.

U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool ordered the sentence against Uribe who is among 18 defendants in the case and was the 18^th to be sentenced.