Nebraska
Nebraska man sentenced for selling meth out of Lexington hotel
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — A Nebraska man was sentenced to federal prison on Tuesday for dealing methamphetamine.
Eswin Lopez-Bravo, 52, of Lexington will spend 4½ years behind bars, then five years on supervised release.
U.S. District Judge John Gerrard also ordered him to give up $4,106 in suspected drug money.
Lopez-Bravo set up shop in a Lexington hotel room “for quite some time,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a press release.
Law enforcement obtained a search warrant for the room in January 2023.
Lopez-Bravo and a second person with a federal arrest warrant were in the room, authorities said.
Investigators found 13.5 grams of meth hidden under a lamp, plastic baggies under the mattress, crystal shards that tested positive for meth, and $1,712 in cash.
On June 15, 2023, Lopez-Bravo was arrested on a state warrant.
He had 9.8 grams of meth and $2,394 in cash on him, authorities said.
Text messages showed that Lopex-Bravo made several thousand dollars’ worth of drug transactions on behalf of someone incarcerated in California, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.