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A 38-year-old Vallejo man was sentenced Monday in a federal courtroom in Sacramento to nearly 22 years in prison for methamphetamine trafficking, a U.S. attorney said.
Christopher Matthew Rougeau, a previously convicted felon, was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, said Phillip A. Talbert, the U.S. Attorney for the Department of Justice’s Eastern District of California.
In a press statement, Talbert said court documents — and information provided by the Marin County Sheriff’s Office — showed that on April 20, Sheriff’s detectives, search warrant in hand, found Rougeau in his car in Vallejo and searched him. They found a pistol in a holster on his hip. On the passenger seat, officers found 159 grams, or 5.61 ounces, of methamphetamine, which was 94% pure, and a digital scale. In the backseat, officers found another pistol.
During a search later of Rougeau’s residence, detectives found the following: Two devices called “Glock Switches” (which turn a Glock pistol into a fully automatic machine gun); a sawed off pistol grip shotgun; another pistol; hundreds of rounds of ammunition; several suspected controlled substances, including more than a quarter-pound of crystal methamphetamine, approximately one ounce of cocaine, approximately one ounce of heroin; counterfeit M-30 pills containing fentanyl; and more than 60 pounds of marijuana.
Rougeau, who had been previously convicted in California state court of multiple firearm and drug offenses, was arrested and eventually booked at the Solano County Jail in Fairfield.
The case stemmed from an investigation by the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas M. Fogg prosecuted the case, part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make neighborhoods safer, said Talbert.
Originally published at Richard Bammer