ASHEVILLE, NC – Friday — A North Carolina man convicted in a coast-to-coast meth trafficking conspiracy was sentenced to nearly 25 years in federal prison after prosecutors tied him to a multi-state operation that funneled pounds of methamphetamine from Texas to the Appalachian foothills.

Keith Ryan Noles, 44, of Marble, was sentenced Thursday to 296 months in prison and five years of supervised release following his conviction on multiple federal drug and firearm charges. The lengthy sentence follows a 2024 jury verdict that found Noles and his co-defendant, Tina Hill, 47, guilty of distributing meth and conspiring to traffic the drug throughout Western North Carolina.

According to trial evidence, more than eight pounds of methamphetamine were intercepted by authorities in Texas during

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