fort dodge woman to federal prison for meth conspiracy
Contact: Peter Deegan
A woman who conspired to distribute methamphetamine in the Fort Dodge area was sentenced February 11, 2011, to more than eight years in federal prison.
Joy Durham, 34, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, received the prison term after a July 30, 2010, guilty plea to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
At the guilty plea, Durham admitted she conspired to distribute methamphetamine from 2008 through January 2010 in the Fort Dodge area. On two occasions in January 2010, Durham sold methamphetamine to an undercover law enforcement officer. On another occasion in January 2010, Durham possessed methamphetamine.
Durham was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Durham was sentenced to 100 months’ imprisonment. A special assessment of $100 was imposed. She must also serve a five-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Durham is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until she 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 10-3001.
