ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) Two Aberdeen residents have been sent to federal prison for their roles in what authorities say was the city's largest drug bust.

They're identified as 33-year-old James Johnson the Third and 23-year-old Brianne Nutter.

Both pleaded guilty to a methamphetamine charge.

Johnson was given 15 and two-thirds years in prison and was fined ten-thousand dollars.

Nutter was given a prison sentence of four and one-quarter years.

Authorities say Nutter and Johnson were part of a ring of people who were selling methamphetamine in South Dakota.

The couple were arrested last year when police seized a shipment of 32 ounces of meth.

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