A Crawford County man was sentenced Tuesday to spend nearly six years in prison after being convicted on a drug charge. 31-year old Ivan Antonio Cervantes, of Denison, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Cervantes will also serve four years of supervised release following his imprisonment.

As part of his guilty plea, Cervantes admitted to possessing with the intent to distribute nearly 15 grams of pure methamphetamine when his vehicle was stopped south of Harlan in Shelby County, Iowa, in December of 2016. Cervantes further admitted three underage children were in the vehicle when he possessed the methamphetamine.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives conducted the investigation. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.