COUNCIL BLUFFS WOMAN SENTENCED ON METHAMPHETAMINE CHARGES
DES MOINES- On August 18, 2009, Tammy Jo Degutis, age 35, of Council Bluffs, was sentenced to 131 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. Degutis 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. Degutis on September 18, 2008, charging her with manufacture of at least 50 grams of a substance containing methamphetamine. On March 2, 2009, Ms. Degutis pled guilty to this charge admitting to the Court that on May 21, 2008, she possessed components of an active methamphetamine laboratory discovered during a traffic stop by the Mills County Sheriff’s Office.
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 State of Iowa’s Division of Narcotics Enforcement, the Mills County Sheriff’s Office, the Southwest Iowa Narcotics Task Force, and the Mills County Attorney’s Office.