Omaha pair sentenced to federal prison for meth-Distribution
Contact: Peter Deegan
A woman and man who were multi-ounce distributors of methamphetamine have been sentenced to federal prison for their role in a methamphetamine conspiracy.
Rebecca Anne Beldin, age 34, of Omaha, received a 5-year prison term and Christopher Rudy Jimenez, age 35, of Omaha, received a prison term of over eight years, after earlier guilty pleas to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
Information provided by the United States at the sentencing and change of plea hearings revealed that during the conspiracy between April 2009, through July 2009, defendants’ residence in Omaha was the location where 2 ounces of crystal methamphetamine was to be sold. Defendants’ residence was also the location where multiple drug transactions took place. Beldin and Jimenez were supplying a co-defendant with crystal methamphetamine which was brought back to Sioux City and re-sold. Beldin and Jimenez were receiving money or crystal methamphetamine for arranging the transactions.
Beldin and Jimenez were sentenced on March 17, 2010, in United States District Court in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Beldin was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment and Jimenez was sentenced to 100 months’ imprisonment. Beldin and Jimenez must each serve a four-year term of supervised release after prison. There is no parole in the federal system. Beldin and Jimenez were each ordered to pay a $100 special assessment.
Both are being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until they can be transported to a federal prison.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jack Lammers and was investigated by the Tri-State Drug Task Force based in Sioux City, Iowa, that consists of law enforcement personnel from the Drug Enforcement Administration; Sioux City, Iowa, Police Department; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Woodbury County Sheriff’s Office; South Sioux City, Nebraska, Police Department; Nebraska State Patrol; Iowa National Guard; Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement; United States Marshals Service; South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation; and Woodbury County Attorney’s Office.
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 09-4034.
