Jamestown Man Sentenced to 84 Months for Methamphetamine Distribution
U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara sentenced Ruben Medina, 20, of Jamestown, N.Y., to 84 months in federal prison after his conviction for possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine. The sentence triggers mandatory supervised release and removes Medina from the community for seven years under federal narcotics trafficking penalties.
rnz.co.nzBUFFALO, N.Y. — Ruben Medina, 20, of Jamestown, New York, received an 84-month prison sentence June 4 after a federal jury convicted him of possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine.
U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara in the Western District of New York. The term matches the midpoint of the federal sentencing guideline range that applies to offenses involving at least five grams of actual methamphetamine under 21 U.S.C. § 841.
The conviction covers a single count of possession with intent to distribute. Federal law sets a mandatory minimum of five years and a maximum of 40 years for this quantity of methamphetamine. Medina must serve the full 84 months in a Bureau of Prisons facility before beginning a three-year term of supervised release.
The sentence replaces any prior pretrial release conditions and places Medina under total correctional control for the next seven years.
Downstream, the judgment requires the U.S. Probation Office to prepare a post-release supervision plan and obligates the Bureau of Prisons to designate an appropriate facility within the next several weeks. The case also feeds the Western District of New York’s ongoing methamphetamine prosecution docket, which has produced repeated multi-year sentences as local distribution networks shifted from other substances to crystal meth.
Federal agents and prosecutors must now decide whether Medina’s cooperation, if any, yields further indictments in the regional supply chain.
This sentencing continues a pattern of stiff federal penalties for mid-level methamphetamine trafficking in upstate New York. The Department of Justice has pursued similar charges under the same statute in the Western District throughout the past decade, with sentences routinely falling between 60 and 120 months depending on quantity, prior record and acceptance of responsibility.
The June 4 outcome marks the latest entry in that enforcement record.
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