The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa reports a Page County man was sentenced Friday to 16-years in prison on a drug charge. 31-year old  James Paul Davis, of Shenandoah, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to serve 192 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Davis was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release following the period of imprisonment.

Davis plead guilty to the charge on March 11th.  His plea was the result of a year-long investigation that showed large quantities of methamphetamine were transported to Southwestern Iowa from the border region in Texas for distribution across Southwestern Iowa and into Eastern Nebraska from September of 2013 to June of 2014.

The investigation was conducted by the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, Page County Sheriff’s Office, Shenandoah, Iowa, Police Department, Mills County Sheriff’s Office, Southwest Iowa Narcotics Task Force, Omaha, Nebraska, Police Department, Metro Area Fugitive Task Force, and the United States Marshal’s Service for the Southern District of Iowa.

The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.