OMAHA, NE (News Channel Nebraska) -An O'Neill man has been sentenced to federal court in Omaha

for conspiring to distribute and distributing meth.

According to a press release, 41-year-old Thad N. Junge was sentenced to seventeen and a half years in prison, with no chance of parole.

Junge was convicted after a jury found evidence that showed an informant purchased 3.3 grams of meth from his home in O'Neill.

Witnesses at his trial also testified to purchasing various amounts of meth from Junge.

The case was investigated by the Nebraska State Patrol.