BENTON, Ill. — A 39-year-old Mt. Vernon man was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to 25 years in prison after he earlier pleaded guilty to participating in an area drug trafficking ring.

Myron T. Seigart was one of 15 people charged in U.S. District Court with distributing methamphetamine in Mt. Vernon from June 2018 until September 2019.

Seigart pleaded guilty in August to one count of engaging in a conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine in Jefferson County.

Before Seigart was arrested on the federal charge, he was convicted in federal court of conspiracy to distribute cocaine base and distribution of cocaine base and served more than 12 months in federal prison.

In January of this year, he pleaded guilty in Jefferson County Court to a state charge of Class X aggravated battery through the discharge of a firearm and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

That charge was in connection with a shooting that occurred on May 26th, 2019 in the 900 block of South 21st in Mt Vernon.

He was sentenced Tuesday to 276 months in prison on the most recent federal indictment, and 24 months on the earlier conviction, for a total of 300 months, or 25 years in federal prison.

That will be served consecutively to the 15 year sentence handed down in Jefferson County Court. He will then have to serve 10 years mandatory supervised release after completing his federal sentence.

He was arrested on warrants for both the state and federal charges in October of 2019 when Mt. Vernon and Jefferson County officers executing the warrants discovered him hiding the dryer of a Mt. Vernon home.