Press Release
Goffstown Woman Sentenced to 200 Months in Prison for Methamphetamine Trafficking
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Hampshire
CONCORD – United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Katrina Jones, 39, formerly of Goffstown, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 200 months in federal prison for drug trafficking offenses.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Jones and Dustin Moss led a drug distribution network in New Hampshire. Together, they organized a system to facilitate deliveries of methamphetamine to various New Hampshire addresses. Jones and Moss imported a large quantity of nearly pure methamphetamine, contained in multiple packages mailed from Las Vegas, Nevada, to New Hampshire, beginning in mid-2016 and continuing until April 2017. Many of the packages weighed more than 5 pounds. Federal agents intercepted some of the packages in transit through the postal system. The final two packages, intercepted in April 2017, contained a total of 20 pounds of methamphetamine. In addition, 21 packages containing cash payments for the methamphetamine were sent from New Hampshire to the Las Vegas-based methamphetamine supplier. Jones controlled communications with the supplier and traveled to Las Vegas to meet with her supplier. She also used a U-Haul storage facility in Manchester, New Hampshire, to receive drug packages, sometimes in concert with Moss. Finally, Jones also distributed fentanyl as well as methamphetamine.
Jones pleaded guilty on April 27, 2018, to three felony drug distribution counts for distribution of fentanyl, distribution of 5 grams or more of methamphetamine, and distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
On August 2, 2018, Dustin Moss was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to drug distribution and firearms charges. On June 28, 2018, Sabrina Moss, who was also part of the drug distribution network, was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy.
“Illegal drug distribution rings, like the one prosecuted in this case, are a threat to public health and safety, particularly when they traffic in drugs as dangerous as methamphetamine and fentanyl,” said U.S. Attorney Murray. “The significant prison sentence imposed in this case should serve notice that the cost of illegal drug dealing in New Hampshire will be high and that the U.S. Attorney’s Office is vigilant in prosecuting drug traffickers. I commend the law enforcement agents whose dedication and hard work led to the discovery and dismantling of this drug distribution network.”
“The U.S. Postal Inspection Service works diligently to rid the U.S. Mail of illegal drugs,” said Raymond Moss, Acting Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Field Division. “Postal Inspectors accomplish this by focusing on illicit drug mailers, distribution rings and by maintaining an aggressive drug parcel-detection program. Today’s sentencing is a result of a coordinated effort with our federal law enforcement partners to keep these highly addictive drugs off our streets.”
“DEA is committed to bring to justice those that distribute methamphetamine,” said DEA Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle. “DEA and its local, state and federal law enforcement partners will do everything in our power to keep this highly addictive drug off the streets of New Hampshire.”
This case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the DEA, and prosecuted by former Assistant United States Attorney William Morse and Assistant U.S. Attorneys John S. Davis and Shane B. Kelbley.
OCDETF: This case was supported by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF). The OCDETF program is a federal multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional task force that supplies supplemental federal funding to federal and state agencies involved in the identification, investigation, and prosecution of major drug trafficking organizations.
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Updated August 9, 2018
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Drug Trafficking
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