Press Release
☷Michigan City Woman Sentenced to 144 Months in Prison
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( By Press Release office)
Apr 04,2024
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Angelica Ortiz , a 37 - year - old from Michigan City , Indiana , got sentenced by Judge Damon R . Leichty in South Bend after pleading guilty to distributing methamphetamine . She will spend 12 years in prison and will be on supervised release for 3 years . According to court documents , in the fall of 2022 , Ortiz and her co - defendant , Kyle Kirkland , sold methamphetamine to multiple people in Michigan City . Kirkland was sentenced in October 2023 to 11 years and 5 months in prison with 3 years of supervised release . The investigation was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco , Firearms and Explosives and the Drug Enforcement Administration , with assistance from the LaPorte County Drug Task Force . The case was prosecuted by Assistant U . S . Attorney Katelan McKenzie Doyle . This case was part of an investigation by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces ( OCDETF ) , which focuses on targeting high - level drug traffickers and criminal organizations .
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