Last Thursday, 50-year old Ty W. Dusch (Dush) of DuQuoin, was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, according to Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.  Dusch, who had previously pled guilty to the methamphetamine offense, was sentenced to 8 years in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release and fined $200.  The offense occurred between 2011 and June 2013 in Jackson and Perry Counties.  Evidence at the plea and sentencing hearings established that he and others were obtaining pseudoephedrine for use in the manufacture of methamphetamine.  When officers executed a search warrant at a Murphysboro residence where Dusch was staying, they located methamphetamine and methamphetamine-making materials.  At sentencing, the district court found that hewas responsible for just over 371 grams of pseudoephedrine (see-doh-eh-fee-drine).   The district court increased Dusch’s sentence because he violated the terms of his pre-trial bond.