LAFAYETTE, La. –Acting U.S.Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Texas man was sentenced to 13 years and four months in prison for possession of more than 50 grams of methamphetamine in Calcasieu Parish.
United States District Judge Donald E. Walter sentenced Adam Micah Baltutis, 31, of Beaumont, Texas, on one count of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine. The judge also sentenced him to four years of supervised release. According to the January 24, 2017 guilty plea, a law enforcement officer conducted a traffic stop January 5, 2016 on a rental car Baltutis was a passenger in on Interstate 10 that was traveling continually in the passing lane. While looking for registration and insurance papers, the officer found a lockbox containing approximately 418 grams of methamphetamine and two cell phones belonging to the defendant. The defendant told law enforcement agents that since December of 2015 he had been obtaining methamphetamine in Houston and selling it in the areas of Orange, Texas, and Lake Charles.
Homeland Security Investigations and the Calcasieu Parish Combined Anti-Drug Team conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph T. Mickel prosecuted the case.