PITTSBURGH (AP) – A man from the Netherlands who federal prosecutors said was the manufacturer for a massive Ecstasy ring that stretched across three states and grossed more than $1 million was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.

A Pittsburgh federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Stefan Stricker, 34, of Heemskerk, to 11 years, three months in prison for his December guilty plea to drug charges and money laundering.

With his plea, Stricker was the last of 40 people to plead guilty in the past two years as part of a federal investigation.

Federal prosecutors said Stricker hid the drug in tabletop cosmetic mirrors and hollowed out furniture to smuggle it from the Netherlands into the United States or Canada and then on to Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Hampshire.

The investigation began in the fall of 2000 when drug dogs at the airport in Frankfort, Germany, sniffed out a shipment of 22,000 tablets of Ecstasy bound for Indiana, Pa.

Stricker was among six people arrested in May last year.