California Man Sentenced in Methamphetamine Conspiracy

Acting United States Attorney Matthew R. Molsen announced that Trevor Sands, 51, of Culver City, California, was sentenced on May 1, 2025, in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge Susan Bazis sentenced Sands to 57 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After Sands’ release from prison, he will begin a 3-year term of supervised release.

Investigators with the Lincoln/Lancaster County Narcotics Task Force learned that Sands was helping mail packages of methamphetamine to at least two people in Nebraska. Investigators intercepted a package that was delivered to the Post Office in Ulysses, Nebraska on May 13, 2022. A cooperating witness told investigators the package contained methamphetamine that had been shipped by Sands in California. Investigators opened the package and found a half pound of methamphetamine. Investigators found a fingerprint on the package belonging to a California man working with Sands to ship packages of methamphetamine from California to Nebraska.

Between May and September 2022, investigators intercepted three additional packages of meth mailed from California. Post office surveillance video captured Sands mailing at least one of the packages. The Nebraska State Patrol Crime Lab confirmed the presence of methamphetamine in each of the packages, which weighed between one-quarter pound to one pound. 

On February 8, 2023, investigators executed a search warrant at Sands’ residence in Culver City, California. Investigators located methamphetamine in the residence. Sands admitted to distributing methamphetamine, and working with others to mail packages of methamphetamine to Nebraska. 

This case was investigated by the Lincoln/Lancaster County Drug Task Force, the United States Postal Inspection Service, and the Los Angeles Police Department.