FORT WORTH, Texas — A Fort Worth man was sentenced this week to 25 years in prison for trafficking methamphetamine, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced.
Christian Allen Meers, 45, was charged via criminal complaint in June 2023 and indicted the following month, officials say.
Meers pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance Sept. 25, 2023, the morning his trial was set to begin, officials say, and was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor.
Meers operated out of a string of hotels, moving from hotel to hotel every few days to avoid detection by law enforcement, according to court documents.
Officers in Fort Worth detained Meers and a woman who worked with him after a traffic violation, according to a news release, and they found a key card to a nearby La Quinta Inn.
Meers’ “associate” told officers there was methamphetamine hidden in the hotel room, authorities said.
Officials say they found a bag with more than 4,500 grams of methamphetamine inside and two firearms that were reported stolen.
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