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Date: 08-26-2021
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Case Number: 1:21-cr-00119-BLW
Judge: B. Lynn Winmill
Court: United States District Court for the District of Idaho (Ada County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Boise, ID: Drug distribution criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Oliver "Juice" Yardley, of Ontario, Oregon, was charged for distributing methamphetamine.
On August 26, 2019, Yardley and his wife, Ashley Cates Yardley, 33, sold approximately two ounces of methamphetamine to another person in a parking lot in Fruitland, Idaho. Ashely Yardley was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on September 10, 2020. On July 30, 2021, she was sentenced to five years in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release by Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye.
Defendant faces a statutory mandatory minimum sentence of at least five years and up to life in federal prison, a $10 million fine, and at least four years of supervised release. The federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Acting U.S. Attorney Gonzalez credited the efforts of the Treasure Valley Metro Violent Crimes Task Force, which led to charges. The Task Force is comprised of federal, state, and local agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Ada County Sheriff’s Office; Boise Police Department; Caldwell Police Department; Canyon County Sheriff’s Office; Meridian Police Department; Nampa Police Department; and Idaho Department of Correction, Bureau of Probation and Parole. “The ‘Metro’ task force is a model for multijurisdictional cooperative law enforcement investigations,” Gonzalez added.
DISTRIBUTION OF METHAMPHETAMINE
(1-3)
CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE
(4)
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF FIREARMS
(5)
Outcome: Defendant pleaded guilty.
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