A 48-year-old Arizona man has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison on federal convictions in New Mexico on methamphetamine and firearms charges stemming from a drug trafficking organization that prosecutors said he led.
According to prosecutors, the organization led by Matthew Maley of Tucson distributed significant quantities of methamphetamine in New Mexico and Arizona in 2013.
Maley was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Las Cruces on convictions resulting from a four-day trial in September 2014.
He was convicted of four meth trafficking charges and of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez said Maley was a career offender whose criminal history included three prior drug trafficking convictions,.
Four co-defendants pleaded guilty in the case.
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