WAYNE, Neb. -- After being convicted for meth in Wayne County, a California man was given prison time.

Acting U.S. Attorney Susan Lehr said 37-year-old Oscar Villa, from California, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha on Wednesday. He was convicted for his involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy. Villa will serve 240 months in prison with a five-year term of supervised release after. There is no parole in the federal system.

Court documents state that in Wayne County a call came in about two suspicious people trying to get into a resident’s car on Aug. 17, 2022. Nebraska State Patrol troopers found Villa and Johana Madrid on the side of the road on Nebraska Highway 35 and 849 Road.

Officials said they both claimed they were on their way to Iowa for drug treatment but couldn’t explain how they wound up on the side of the road. Madrid admitted to having meth in her bookbag and a firearm was found on the ground nearby. They also found a large meth shard in the fitted sheet Madrid had originally draped over herself.

According to authorities, Villa and Madrid were taken into custody. Troopers searched Madrid’s phone which showed a map of a field near the intersection where the two were found which had a location pin. Using that map and pin, troopers found a bookbag that was covered by soybean plants. Inside the bookbag was 20 pounds of pure meth.

Madrid has pleaded guilty and is set for sentencing on Jan. 3, 2024.

This case was investigated by the DEA, FBI, and the Omaha Police Department.