A 29-year-old Topeka, Kansas man will serve time in federal prison for distributing cocaine in Nebraska.

According to a news release from the office of United States Attorney, Deborah Gilg, Jared Howe was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison.

According to the release, law enforcement received information that Howe and a group of people were transporting cocaine base, also known as crack cocaine, and powder cocaine from the Denver, Colorado area to the North Platte area.  They were also distributing the narcotics in Kansas.

Gilg said on two occasions in May and June of 2011, Howe and Megan Miller, of Denver, picked up crack cocaine from Howe’s co-defendant, Lavon Owens, also of Denver.  Prosecutors say Howe then drove Miller to the North Platte area where the latter delivered the crack.

Howe was responsible for distributing at least 96 grams of crack cocaine.

Owens pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge and was sentenced in December of 2012 to 57 months in prison.

Miller was indicted separately for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, and was sentenced to 57 months in prison in April of 2012.

The case was investigated by multiple law enforcement agencies, including the CODE Drug Task Force, the North Platte Police Department, Dawson County Sheriff’s Office, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, Red Willow County Sheriff’s Office, Frontier County Sheriff’s Office, Nebraska State Patrol, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Homeland Security Investigations Division.