A 39-year-old New York man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after authorities found large amounts of drugs and nearly $300,000 in cash stashed around his rural upstate property.
Federal prosecutors say Joshua Stegemann was sentenced Wednesday in Albany, where a jury convicted him last August on drug and weapons possession charges.
Authorities say he based his drug trafficking business out of his property in the Rensselaer County town of Stephentown.
A police search in April 2013 found more than 600 grams of cocaine, 30 grams of heroin, 700 oxycodone pills, three firearms with ammunition, and $296,000 hidden in the house or stashed among the landscaping.
A search of a home in nearby Pittsfield, Massachusetts, turned up another $160,000 in cash.
Copyright 2016 by The Associated Press.
