Crystal Lake Man to Federal Prison for Meth Conspiracy

A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced July 19, 2025, to more than five years in federal prison.

Jeremy Nedved, age 42, from Crystal Lake, Iowa, received the prison term after a January 6, 2025, guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. 

At sentencing, Nedved admitted that between February and September 2024, he utilized the “dark web”, a part of the internet that is not visible to search engines and requires the use of an anonymizing browser called Tor to be accessed, to purchase methamphetamine that he further distributed to others.  In August 2024, law enforcement had become aware Nedved was using the U.S. mail to receive controlled substances.  On August 29, 2024, a mail watch notification was triggered for Nedved’s P.O. Box in Crystal Lake on a package.  A search warrant was obtained to intercept and search the package which netted approximately a half pound of methamphetamine.  On September 3, 2024, a controlled delivery of the methamphetamine package took place at the Crystal Lake post office.  Nedved retrieved this parcel and was arrested.  

Nedved was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Leonard T. Strand.  Nedved was sentenced to 63 months’ imprisonment.  He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term.  There is no parole in the federal system.  Nedved 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 Patrick T. Greenwood and investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service, the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation and the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office.  

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

The case file number is 24-CR-03040.  

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