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President Obama has commuted the prison sentence of another Utah drug offender — this time a Salt lake City man convicted of trying to manufacture methamphetamine.

Randall C. Moyer's prison sentence will end Oct. 27, 2018, according to the White House. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons had scheduled Moyer, 54, for release on Dec. 23, 2021. He is at a low security prison in Lompoc, Calif.

The President also forgave $2,729.97 in outstanding restitution.

Moyer was convicted in federal court in Salt Lake City in 2006 and sentenced to 240 months in prison and five years of supervised release.

The commutation is conditioned upon Moyer's enrollment in residential drug treatment, according to the White House.

According to court documents, Moyer was living at a home near 100 W. MacArthur Ave. (1890 South) in Salt Lake City. On May 28, 2004, agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration's Metro Narcotic Task Force raided the home just after Moyer had consumed meth and while he was making the drug in the garage.

Obama has commuted hundreds of federal drug sentences in an effort to bring justice to what people in both parties call unfair sentencing guidelines. Earlier this month, he shortened the sentences of two other Utah men — one convicted of intending to distribute meth and one convicted of trying to manufacture it. They also received October 2018 release dates.

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