Shipped cash to Phoenix, Arizona, for approximately a year
in exchange for over 50 pounds of ice methamphetamine
A man who trafficked at least 50 pounds of methamphetamine
in the Dubuque, Iowa, area was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in federal
prison.
Derek Richard Rath, age 35, from Dubuque, received the
prison term after an August 23, 2018, guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute
methamphetamine near a school and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Court documents and evidence presented at the sentencing
hearing established that in June 2016, Rath obtained the phone number of
codefendant Anthony Robert McCarron in Phoenix.
Shortly after, Rath and McCarron agreed that Rath would pay McCarron to
ship packages of ice methamphetamine to several addresses in Dubuque. McCarron mailed at least 50 pounds of
methamphetamine to Rath between July 2016 to July 2017.
Rath paid for the methamphetamine by mailing packages of
cash to McCarron. In all, Rath and
McCarron mailed at least 56 packages, sometimes using aliases on the shipping
labels. They also wired thousands of
dollars to each other with MoneyGram, Western Union, and Walmart2Walmart.
Rath was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District
Court Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand to 240 months’ imprisonment. He must also serve a 10-year term of
supervised release after the prison term.
There is no parole in the federal system. Rath is being held in the United States
Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
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