Six men with ties to a Mexican drug cartel have been sentenced in a conspiracy to sell large quantities of crystal methamphetamine in the D.C. area.

The leader, Alberto Garcia Calderon, 37, was sentenced in federal court in D.C. to 16 years. The others received between nearly seven years and 16.

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