AUSTIN, Minn. – A plea deal is sending a Mower County drug dealer to prison. Robert Edward Collins, 46 of Austin, was sentenced Thursday to seven years behind bars, with credit for 309 days already served. He was arrested in June 2021 in connection to an undercover drug sting in which the 46 year old sold meth and heroin to a confidential informant on four different occasions. Collins pleaded guilty in January to second-degree drug sales and several other charges were dismissed as part of the plea deal.
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