A Mexican national with what the FBI called “probable” ties to a transnational drug cartel was sentenced Thursday in a Casper federal court to 15 years in federal prison, for selling meth on the Wind River Indian Reservation.

Oscar Espinoza-Duarte had also pleaded guilty to using a gun to traffic drugs and possessing a gun as an illegal alien.

U.S. District Court Judge Scott Skavdahl on Thursday sentenced Espinoza-Duarte to 15 years in prison, with a deportation to follow. The judge ordered Espinoza-Duarte to pay $400 in special assessments and $1,000 in restitution, court documents say.

Skavdahl on Tuesday sentenced Espinoza-Duarte’s co-defendant, German Ortiz-Esparza, to 10 years in prison, also with deportation to follow.

Ortiz-Esparza has been ordered to pay $200 in special assessm

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