A Monterey Park man who pleaded guilty to the distribution of hundreds of thousands of ecstasy pills in just a few months operated a “stash house” in the City of Industry.

Jimmy Luong, 30, was sentenced Monday afternoon to 22 years in federal prison, according to a news release.  U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson said while imposing the prison term that the operation was “extraordinary” and one of the largest he had seen in his years on the bench. Once he completes his prison term, Luong will be under supervised release for 10 years.

Last year, Luong pleaded guilty two conspiracy charges, one related to trafficking ecstasy and a second involving the manufacturing of methamphetamine.  He also pleaded guilty to a third charge of possessing a custom-made assault rifle, authorities said.

“Most significant was the scope of these conspiracies, which included distribution of at least 1 million ecstasy pills over a several-month period, along with manufacturing at least 500 grams of methamphetamine from defendant’s massive and chemically dangerous laboratory in the City of Industry,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing brief.

Luong’s City of Industry home served as the base operations for the narcotics ring.  He also had a second stash location at a storage facility in Arcadia, where authorities seized about 510,000 ecstasy tablets.  A third stash netted around 250,000 more tablets of the drug, according to authorities.

With Luong as the leader of the drug-trafficking organization, the operators distributed more than a million ecstasy pills in Southern California from March to July of 2010, officials said.  Ecstasy is the street name for a club drug that contains the chemical 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA).

“Ecstasy use, particularly by our teens and youth, has continued to increase during the past ten years,” said DEA Special Agent in Charge Timothy J. Landrum. “(Monday’s) sentencing sends a message to those who prey on our communities by manufacturing and distributing these dangerous drugs. DEA and our law enforcement partners will not rest until these criminals are no longer able to prey on our communities.”

Luong was one of 15 men who were named in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the summer of 2010.

The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Beverly Hills Police Department, with significant assistance from IRS - Criminal Investigation; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the Los Angeles Interagency Metropolitan Police Apprehension Crime Task Force (LA IMPACT), conducted the investigation into Luong’s drug trafficking organization.