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A methamphetamine dealer has been sentenced to 188 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. in Cape Girardeau, MO.
In March, Marcus M. Nelson, a 42-year-old resident of Cairo, Illinois, confessed to two charges of distributing methamphetamine in the U.S. District Court located in Cape Girardeau. He acknowledged that he sold meth to a confidential informant on two separate occasions, who later informed the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) about previous purchases of several ounces of meth from Nelson.
Nelson made two drug deals in 2023. The first one took place on July 10th, when he sold 157 grams of meth for $1,600 at a Cape Girardeau home to an informant. The second deal occurred on July 16th, when he sold almost one pound (446 grams) of meth for a downpayment of $2,500 and a later payment of $700.
Nelson will serve his sentence consecutively to any prison time he receives for violating his parole on a robbery conviction. In 2001, he was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and distribution of cocaine base in the Southern District of Illinois and was sentenced to 140 months in prison.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Willis prosecuted the case, which was investigated by the DEA.
On July 8, 2024, Kristy Tallman reported the news for The Republic News. The source of the news was the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Missouri.