CONCORD, N.H. – A member of the Ku Klux Klan Motorcycle Club was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison in a drug ring operating in New Hampshire, Maine and Arizona.

Carroll Lane, 39, of Wells, Maine, also was sentenced to five years supervision after his release.

U.S. District Judge Paul Barbadoro handed down the sentence, the mandatory minimum under the charge.

He pleaded guilty last November to conspiracy to distribute crystal methamphetamine and laundering the proceeds of drug trafficking.

James Michael Coyne, 43, of Laconia, also pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. His sentencing was delayed. He faces 15 years to life in prison.

Lane was convicted of theft in 1993 in Somersworth; Coyne was convicted of manslaughter in 1978 in Strafford County Superior Court in a stabbing death.

The club itself had only two chapters, in Arizona and New Hampshire, and the investigation and arrests put the club out of existence, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph LaPlante last November. He said it had been in existence for about five years with at least 10 members.

He said the club did not appear to be part of the national white supremacist KKK, though some pro-white propaganda was seized, LaPlante said.

Lane was arrested last June in Flagstaff, Ariz., and Coyne in September in the Laconia area following a yearlong investigation by federal and state authorities.

Court papers said drugs were kept in a self-storage unit in Sanford, Maine, prior to sale.