Man sentenced for murder

ST. LOUIS -- Michael D. Meador was sentenced late Monday to 20 years in prison and two life sentences on drug and weapons charges involving a 2006 murder.

According to testimony presented at the trial of Meador, in early 2006, Meador, Dennis Dinwiddie and Sergio Burgos Gonzales were involved in a conspiracy to distribute marijuana in Southeast Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap said in a news release. During the course of the drug trafficking conspiracy, Meador and Dinwiddie plotted to murder Burgos-Gonzales to rob him of marijuana and drug proceeds.

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