fort dodge man sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for meth conspiracy
Contact: Peter Deegan
A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine in the Fort Dodge area was sentenced March 26, 2010, to more than 16 years in federal prison.
Jon King, 38, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, received the prison term after a January 12, 2010, guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
At the plea hearing, King admitted that, from about 2006 through June 2009, he was involved in the distribution of at least 750 grams of methamphetamine and 455 pounds of marijuana in the Fort Dodge area.
King was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. King was sentenced to 200 months’ imprisonment. A special assessment of $100 was imposed. He must also serve a five-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
King is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Shawn S. Wehde and was investigated as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program of the United States Department of Justice through a cooperative effort of the Fort Dodge Police Department, the Webster County Sheriff’s Office, the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 09-3032.
