It was announced by U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler on Tuesday that Fairbanks man 26-year-old Steven Jacob Johnson was sentenced last week to one year in prison for three counts of conspiracy and selling drugs. Johnson was credited with the ten-months that he has already served while awaiting trial and sentencing.

Included in the sentence was 54 days of electronically monitored home confinement and three years of supervised release.

Johnson pled guilty to the charges earlier this year.

The DEA case arose from Johnson selling the drugs 2C-E and 2C-I which he sold as “Ecstasy” to an undercover informant on two separate occasions and negotiated a third sale. The sales were filmed and recorded. On the first occasion, Johnson sold 300 pills for $9 apiece, on the second occasion, Johnson sold 800 pills for $10 apiece. He netted $10,700 for those sales. He also negotiated a third sale of 900 pills.

2C-E and 2C-I are phenethylamines that have chemical and pharmacological properties very similar to LSD, Ecstasy and other hallucinogenic drugs.

Johnson told the court that he made the sales for his partner and co-defendant who he said manufactured the drugs. Johnson was observed giving most of the profits from the sales to that partner. Drew Jackson fashioned the pills with a hammer tap press and colored the pills with different colors to make it appear that the drugs did not originate from the same place.

Both Johnson and Jackson were arrested in mid-October of 2012.

Jackson, Johnson’s co-defendant also pled guilty to distribution, possession and conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on those charges on September 27th, 2013.