Ryan Harmon, 27, of East Chicago, has been sentenced in Hammond federal court to 151 months in prison and four years probation for distributing a crack cocaine in March 2007.

Court records state that Harmon had three prior felony drug convictions for delivering and possessing a controlled substance.

The recent case was investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Lake County High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force and the East Chicago Police Department.