SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- A 37-year-old South Bend man will spend nearly 3 years in prison after pleading guilty to a meth-related drug charge on June 3.

United States Attorney’s Office Northern District of Indiana reports Steven Briones was sentenced after pleading guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute 50 Grams or More of a Mixture and Substance Containing Methamphetamine.

Briones was sentenced to 2 years and 8 months in prison followed by 2 years of supervised release.

Court documents reveal investigators intercepted two postal packages containing thousands of pressed methamphetamine pills.

Authorities later obtained a search warrant for Briones’ house after seeing another person go into his house carrying the two packages.

During the search warrant's execution, investigators found a Ziploc bag containing about 64 grams of orange pressed methamphetamine pills packed in a chest in Briones’ living room.