Omaha Man Sentenced to 180 Months for Conspiring to Distribute Methamphetamine

United States Attorney Susan T. Lehr announced that Joshua Finken, age 46, of Omaha, Nebraska was sentenced on November 22, 2024, in federal court in Omaha for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Finken to 180 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, Finken will be required to complete a 5-year term of supervised release. Finken also forfeited $17,282.00 as proceeds obtained as a result of his participation in the meth distribution conspiracy.

On September 27, 2022, investigators executed a warrant to search a residence on South 45th Street in Omaha, where Finken and James Graves resided. Investigators found a safe in Graves’s upstairs bedroom containing a small quantity of meth. Finken resided in the basement of the residence, where investigators found several ounces of meth, three realistic appearing Airsoft pellet guns, and drug proceeds in the amount of $17,282.00. Graves was present at the time of the search and was arrested. Finken was not present and was therefore not immediately arrested.

Finken was arrested nearly a month later on October 23, 2022, when Omaha Police Department officers responded to a motorcycle accident at South 45th Street and Leavenworth Street in Omaha. When officers arrived, Finken, who had crashed into construction cones, was running away on foot from the scene. Officers arrested him. Finken left a backpack at the scene of a motorcycle accident. The bag was searched and found to contain several more ounces of meth.

On August 29, 2023, Chief Judge Rossiter sentenced James Graves to imprisonment for 151 months, to be followed by a 5-year term of supervised release.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Transnational Organized Crime (TOC-West) Task Force, the Bellevue Police Department, and the Omaha Police Department.