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OTTUMWA, IOWA -- An Ottumwa man will spend the next seven years in a federal prison on drug charges.

35-year-old Eliseo Gomez-Nunez was sentenced in federal court on May 20 on one count of distribution of more than 500 grams of meth.

The charge stemmed from an investigation in November of 2009 by both the Southeast Iowa Inter-agency Drug Task Force and federal agents into a Ottumwa drug ring.

Ottumwa police officers used a confidential informant and surveillance techniques to make repeated drug buys from Nunez before arresting him.

The case was complicated by the fact that Nunez went by at least four different aliases including Leslie Marrero and Giovanni DeJesus.

Gomez-Nunez originally pleaded guilty in May of 2010.

Federal online court records