California Man Sentenced for Methamphetamine Trafficking

Acting United States Attorney Matthew Molsen announced that Nathan Clair, 44, of Riverside, California, was sentenced on March 7, 2025, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for shipping 7 pounds of methamphetamine by U.P.S.  Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Clair to 151 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, he will begin a 5-year term of supervised release.

On February 15, 2022, the DEA Criminal Interdiction Unit (CIU) intercepted a package at the U.P.S. store in Omaha. Working with U.P.S. security, it was later determined that the package contained approximately 7 pounds of methamphetamine.  Undercover CIU agents took the package to the recipient’s address where Michael Bender arrived to pick up the package.  Bender was arrested.  Through further investigation it was determined that Clair sent the package from California.   

Bender was sentenced on March 13, 2023, to a term of imprisonment of 180 months.

This case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Nebraska State Patrol.