Last week, 27-year-old Michael Bernard Hicks Jr. of Burlington was sentenced to 12 and a half years in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine. Court documents and evidence presented during sentencing established that Hicks Jr. had distributed more than three kilograms of meth in southeast Iowa to confidential informants and undercover officers from October 2022 to October 2023. All of these transactions occurred while Hicks Jr. was on probation for a state conviction for possession with intent to deliver meth. Following his 150 month incarceration, Hick’s Jr. will be required to serve five years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.

This sentence was handed down by the federal court for the Southern District of Iowa. The initial case was investigated by the Southeast Iowa Narcotics Task Force and Iowa Department of Safety Division of Narcotics Enforcement.