Drug Dealer Sentenced to Prison for Meth Distribution

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Robert Mason Wildes, 35, of Dunn Loring, was sentenced today to 136 months in prison for distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.

Wildes pleaded guilty on February 3. According to court documents, Wildes regularly drove to meet with his customers in the Washington D.C., area to distribute ounce to half-pound quantities of methamphetamine. On Dec. 6, 2016, law enforcement seized approximately 4.8 kilograms of methamphetamine and drug proceeds from Wildes’s vehicle and home in Dunn Loring. During a search of his home, law enforcement also seized fraudulent identification cards, packaging materials, and other items consistent with Wildes operating a sophisticated distribution operation.

The case was investigated by the DEA and U.S. Postal Inspection Service as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), Ring of Ice. The OCDETF program is a federal multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional task force that supplies supplemental federal funding to federal and state agencies involved in the identification, investigation, and prosecution of major drug trafficking organizations. The principal mission of the OCDETF program is to identify, disrupt and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and money laundering organizations, and those primarily responsible for the nation’s illegal drug supply.

Dana J. Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Karl C. Colder, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Washington Field Division; and Robert B. Wemyss, Inspector in Charge of the Washington Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, made the announcement after sentencing by Senior U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III. Assistant U.S. Attorney Carina A. Cuellar prosecuted the case.

A copy of this press release may be found on the website of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia or on PACER by searching for Case No. 1:17-cr-17.