Last Crystal Highway defendant sentenced to 22.5 years

Staff and wire report

The last of 20 people - including three Havreites - charged with running a ring trafficking methamphetamine from California up to Montana, including the Hi-Line, was sentenced in federal District Court in Great Falls Thursday.

District Judge Brian Morris sentenced Joshua Alberto Rodriduez of Los Angeles to 270 months in federal prison for consipriace to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute meth and 240 months on each of a charge of possession of conspiracy involving firearms and drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit money laundering, to run at the...