U.S. District Judge James Hendrix told Ronnie Manuel Garcia on Thursday that he doubted the sincerity of his words expressing a desire to change his ways during a sentencing hearing after admitting to coordinating the trafficking of more than a dozen kilos of methamphetamine from his prison cell in Big Spring.

Garcia, 33, was already serving a 15-year federal prison sentence for trafficking cocaine in Lubbock when investigators discovered his role in the methamphetamine trafficking operation last year.

"Clearly, you are not interested in changing," Hendrix told Garcia before handing a 405-month prison sentence.

Garcia faced between 10 years to life in a federal prison after pleading guilty in June to a count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or m

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