In Costa Mesa, California a confessed Ecstasy dealer is going to prison. The dealer was nabbed after selling over 1,000 pills for $3 each.

According to the OC Weekly, “A 2009 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation into massive sales of the party drug Ecstasy (or MDMA) in Costa Mesa near Orange Coast College resulted this month in a prison term of 46 months for one of the drug dealers.

“It’s not known what arguments Andrew Quoc Tran’s defense lawyer and Assistant United States Attorney Robert J. Keenan made about punishment because U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney sealed the debate from public view.

“Tran, who has been free from custody on $30,000 bail, pleaded guilty in March 2010 to four criminal counts filed in a federal indictment.”