SOUTHEAST MISSOURI MEN SENTENCED ON DRUG CHARGES

A federal judge has sentenced two Southeast Missouri men to serve prison terms for their part in a methamphetamine drug trafficking operation.

U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh sentenced Darrell Edward Jones, 28, of East Prairie to 10 years in prison without parole for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

The judge sentenced Kevin Wayne Williams, 28, of Commerce to 10 years and a month in prison without parole for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.

The sentences were handed down Monday and Tuesday in federal court in Cape Girardeau.

Jones and Williams are among nine defendants who were charged and convicted following a lengthy and continuing prosecution of methamphetamine trafficking into Southeast Missouri from California.

The remaining defendants are scheduled to be sentenced in June 1996.