A man who conspired to possess methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it pled guilty on April 5, 2010, in federal court in Sioux City.

Gary Lee Brooks, age 55, from Spencer, Iowa, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine within 1000 feet of a public playground and one count of possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute and aiding and abetting the possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine within 1000 feet of a public playground.

At the plea hearing, Brooks admitted that, in April of 2008, he conspired with others to bring methamphetamine from Las Vegas, Nevada, to the Storm Lake, Iowa, area. Brooks met with co-conspirators in a parking lot within 1000 feet of Awaysis Park in Storm Lake. Brooks was arrested as he left Storm Lake, and methamphetamine was found in his vehicle. Methamphetamine was also found in a motel room in Storm Lake.
Sentencing before United States District Court Judge Donald E. O’Brien will be set after a presentence report is prepared. Brooks remains on pretrial release supervision pending sentencing. Brooks faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment and not more than life imprisonment, an $8,000,000 fine, $200 in special assessments, and 10 years up to life of supervised release following any imprisonment.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kevin C. Fletcher and was investigated as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force program of the United States Department of Justice through a cooperative effort of the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, Spencer Police Department, Buena Vista County Sheriff’s Office, Storm Lake Police Department, O’Brien County Sheriff’s Office, Iowa State Patrol, and Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement.

Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 09-04058.

 

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