Swift Bird Woman Sentenced for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance

PIERRE - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court, has sentenced a Swift Bird, South Dakota, woman convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance. The sentencing took place on February 27, 2023.

Regina Maynard, age 31, was sentenced to seven years and three months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, a $1,000 fine, and a special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund in the amount of $100.

Maynard was indicted by a federal grand jury in April of 2022. She pleaded guilty on October 4, 2022.

The conviction stemmed from an incident on February 7, 2022, when law enforcement conducted a traffic stop on Maynard and a co-defendant. They searched the vehicle and found inside Maynard’s purse a digital scale and several baggies. Five packages of methamphetamine, totaling 139 grams of pure methamphetamine, were found in a safe disguised to look like a book. Maynard admitted possessing the methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it in and around central South Dakota and on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation.

This case was investigated by the Stanley County Sheriff’s Office and the Northern Plains Safe Trails Drug Task Force. Assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan N. Dilges prosecuted the case.

Maynard was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.