Cedar Rapids Woman Involved in Methamphetamine Conspiracy Sentenced to Prison

A woman who conspired with others to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced today to six years in federal prison.

Allison Mills, age 32, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after a July 25, 2023 guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance.

Evidence at the plea and sentencing hearings showed that Mills was involved in a large-scale drug trafficking organization that was responsible for mailing methamphetamine from California to Iowa through the United States Postal Service.  Mills received at least five packages from California that each contained multiple pounds of methamphetamine.  In exchange for allowing these packages to be delivered to her address, Mills received a pound of methamphetamine from one of her co-conspirators for each box she received.

Mills was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams.  Mills was sentenced to 72 months’ imprisonment.  She must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term.  There is no parole in the federal system.

Mills 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 Adam J. Vander Stoep 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 United States Postal Inspection Service, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Task Force.  The DEA Task Force consists of the DEA, the Linn County Sheriff's Office, the Cedar Rapids Police Department, the Marion Police Department, and the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement.

Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. 

The case file number is 22-CR-91.

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