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Date: 08-20-2015
Case Style: United States of America v. Jeffery Wear
Case Number: 3:14-cr-03067-MWB
Judge: Mark W. Bennett
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa (Woodbury County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: Shawn S. Wehde
Defendant's Attorney: Douglas L Roehrich
Description: Sioux City, IA - A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced to five years in federal prison.
Jeffery Wear, 51, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, received the prison term after a May 6, 2015, guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
At the guilty plea, Wear admitted that from about 2012 through December 2014, he conspired to distribute more than 150 grams of actual (pure) methamphetamine. On December 2, 2014, in Audubon County, Iowa, law enforcement conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by Wear. Law enforcement officers seized approximately ½ pound of methamphetamine from Wear’s vehicle.
Wear was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Wear was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment. A special assessment of $100 was imposed. He must also serve a four-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system. Wear is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was investigated by the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, Audubon County Sheriff’s Office, Fort Dodge Police Department, Webster County Sheriff’s Office, and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations.
Outcome: See above
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