WASHINGTON, June 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - An armed drug trafficker was sentenced to 20 years in prison today for distributing methamphetamine, possessing a machegun, and other offenses, announced Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. William Chase Pate, 39, of Morganton, N.C., was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release after he completes his 20-year prison term.
"This case is a classic example of how drug dealing and firearm violence go hand-in-hand," said U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson, "and we will use federal charges to take violent drug dealers off the street."
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