News – Sheridan Media
A 46-year-old Sheridan man was sentenced in Fourth Judicial District Court Thursday for distributing methamphetamine. Sheridan Media’s Ron Richter has the details.
District Court Judge Darci Phillips accepted the terms of the plea agreement reached between the defendant and the State, and sentenced David Lopez to 3 to 7 years in prison for each of two counts of delivery of a controlled substance – methamphetamine. Both of the sentences were suspended in lieu of a split sentence of 90-days in the Sheridan County Detention Center to be followed by three years of supervised probation. The sentences will run concurrent to one another. Lopez received 27 days of credit for time served of presentence confinement.
Judge Phillips ordered Lopez to pay $575 in court costs and assessments and granted his request to not be remanded to jail immediately so that he can keep a previously scheduled medical appointment. Phillips said that Lopez must check into the Sheridan County Detention Center by 8 am on Monday September 1 to serve his sentence. Lopez’s arrest was part of an investigation by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation where he sold methamphetamine to a confidential informant on two separate occasions in December of 2024.
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