Man faces prison time for selling ecstasy pills

A Murray man convicted of selling more than 100,000 tablets of the club drug ecstasy has been sentenced to serve 13 years in federal prison.

Long Bao Ngo, 32, declined to say anything to the court before a federal judge imposed his sentence on one count of drug distribution.

Ngo was charged with selling the drug MDMA, known on the street as ecstasy, between 2001 and 2006.

In accepting a plea deal last February, Ngo pleaded guilty to the drug possession charge. Federal prosecutors said the plea deal was a compromise in a case which was built on the statements of others and the fact that Ngo faced an even higher sentence if he took it to trial and was convicted by a jury.

U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart also granted Ngo's request for in-prison drug treatment.