A 46-year-old Sheridan man was sentenced to 4th Judicial District Court on Thursday for distributing methamphetamine. Ron Richter from Sheridan Media has the details.
District Court Judge Darci Phillips accepted the terms of the defendant’s plea agreement with the State and sentenced David Lopez to 3 to 7 years in prison for each of two counts of methamphetamine delivery.
Both sentences were suspended in exchange for a split sentence of 90 days in the Sheridan County Detention Center followed by three years of supervised probation.
The sentences will run concurrently. Lopez received 27 days credit for time served in presentence confinement.
Judge Phillips ordered Lopez to pay $575 in court costs and assessments and granted his request not to be remanded to jail immediately so that he could attend a previously scheduled medical appointment.
Phillips stated that Lopez must report to the Sheridan County Detention Center by 8 a.m. on Monday, September 1 to serve his sentence.
Lopez was arrested as part of the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation’s investigation into the sale of methamphetamine to a confidential informant on two separate occasions in December 2024.
