Cedar Rapids man sentenced to 1 year in prison for distributing heroin

A 32-year-old Cedar Rapids man was sentenced Monday to over one year in federal prison for distributing heroin.

Louis Mack pleaded last September to two counts of distributing heroin. Mack was arrested after selling heroin to a confidental source working for police.

Court documents show Mack was part of a known drug trafficking ring in Cedar Rapids. Mack and others have been charged after authorities used confidential sources to buy heroin from suspected distributors.

In two different incidents in 2015, Mack was found distributing a total of 2.75 grams of heroin to users in Cedar Rapids.

David Nadler, Mack's lawyer, asked the judge to sentence his client to time served because Mack had been in jail and on home confinement for 11 months pending trial.

U.S. District Chief Judge Linda Reade said she didn't consider home confinement the same as jail time and would let the Bureau of Prisons decide any credit for time served he may have. She sentenced Mack to 16 months on each count, the top of the guideline range, but ran them concurrently.

Reade said her sentenced was based on the seriousness of the offense and that Mack was at high risk to reoffend. He committed this offense while on parole in Illinois, she said.

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