BEDFORD WOMAN SENTENCED ON METHAMPHETAMINE CHARGES
DES MOINES- On August 18, 2009, Andrea Lee Fletchall, age 38, of Bedford, was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment for manufacture of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker. In addition, the Honorable United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner sentenced Ms. Fletchall to eight years of supervised release, and ordered her to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victim Fund.
A one count indictment was filed against Ms. Fletchall on August 20, 2008, charging her with manufacture of at least 50 grams of a substance containing methamphetamine. On March 2, 2009, Ms. Fletchall pled guilty to this charge admitting to the Court that on June 3, 2008, she possessed components of an active methamphetamine laboratory discovered during a traffic stop by the Bedford Police Department.
This case was prosecuted in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa. This investigation was conducted jointly by the Iowa Department of Public Safety’s Division of Narcotics Enforcement, Bedford Police Department, Taylor County Sheriff’s Office, Tri County Drug Task Force and the Taylor County Attorney’s Office.