A 61-year-old Galesburg man was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine.
Daniel Villareal Jr. was sentenced this week to a nine-year prison term, followed by three years of supervised release.
At the sentencing hearing in front of United States District Judge James E. Shadid, the government presented evidence that Villarreal previously had received multiple deliveries of methamphetamine and had distributed that methamphetamine in and around Galesburg. On the date Villarreal was arrested, police located approximately 13 pounds of methamphetamine in his apartment.
Villarreal pleaded guilty to the charge in October 2022 and has been in custody since his arrest in January 2022.
The Galesburg Police Department; Knox County Sheriff’s Office; Macomb Police Department; and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Springfield Field Office, investigated this case, with the assistance of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Assistant U.S. Attorney John Mehochko represented the government in the prosecution.
