Cape Girardeau man sentenced to prison on methamphetamine charge

Phillip Edwin Thomas, 39, was sentenced on one felony count of conspiracy to manufacture five grams or more of methamphetamine and possession of pseudoephedrine with intent to manufacture methamphetamine.

The sentence will be served consecutively with a sentence Thomas is currently serving for a Cape Girardeau County conviction on possession of methamphetamine.

U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. gave Thomas an extra year on his sentence because, according to evidence presented in court, he had threatened and struck other inmates while awaiting disposition in the federal case.

With an earlier guilty plea, Thomas admitted that he had been buying large amounts of pseudoephedrine pills between August and October 2008 to supply another person for manufacture of methamphetamine.