spencer man sentenced to 10 years for meth
Contact: Peter Deegan
A man who conspired to possess methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it was sentenced on October 19, 2010, to 10 years in federal prison.
Gary Lee Brooks, age 55, from Spencer, Iowa, received the prison term after an April 5, 2010, guilty plea to one count of conspiring 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 guilty plea, 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.
Brooks was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Donald E. O’Brien. Brooks was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment. A special assessment of $200 was imposed. He must also serve a 10-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Brooks 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 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.
