Fort Dodge Man Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Violating Federal Supervised Release

A man who failed to comply with conditions of federal supervised release was sentenced November 14, 2017, to two years in federal prison.

Sterling Lee Clark, 27, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, was originally sentenced in federal district court for the Northern District of Iowa, on April 9, 2012, to 57 months’ in prison for possession of a firearm by a felon.  Clark was released on three years’ of federal supervised release on June 10, 2016.  At his revocation hearing, Clark admitted violations which included four separate deliveries of cocaine in August/September 2016, to which he pled guilty in Webster County, Iowa District Court and for which he was sentenced to 10 years’ in state prison in November 2016.  Clark was released on state parole in October 2017, and transferred to federal custody for disposition of his federal supervised release violations. 

On November 14, 2017, The Honorable Mark W. Bennett, federal district court judge, revoked Clark’s federal supervised release and sentenced Clark to 24 months’ imprisonment with an additional 12 months’ of supervised release to follow his term of imprisonment.  Clark 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 Shawn S. Wehde and investigated by U.S. Probation Office, Fort Dodge Police Department, Webster County Sheriff’s Office and Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement. 

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

The case file number is 11-3034.

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