Omaha Resident Sentenced To Fourteen Years For Distributing Methamphetamine
Des Moines, Iowa - On November 30, 2007, JASON SCOTT STILL, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine in Western Iowa, announced United States Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker. Senior United States District Judge Ronald E. Longstaff also ordered STILL to serve a four year term of supervised release following incarceration and an assessment of $100 to the Crime Victim Fund. STILL entered a guilty plea on August 20, 2007 to conspiring to Distribute Methamphetamine in Western Iowa between May, 2006 and February, 2007.
Also sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Ronald E. Longstaff on November 30, 2007 was MELISSA C. HILTABIDEL. HILTABIDEL, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced to 58 months imprisonment, a period of five years of Supervised Release, and an assessment of $100 to the Crime Victim Fund. The sentence was imposed after HILTABIDEL entered a guilty plea on March 30, 2007, for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine in Western Iowa between January, 2006 to July, 2006.
STILL and HILTABIDEL were two of fourteen people involved in the network that distributed methamphetamine received from Mexico through Omaha into Western Iowa.
Previously sentenced in this case are the following individuals: Angela Wise was sentenced to 168 months on July 27, 2007; Michelle Newton was sentenced to 120 months on August 24, 2007; Kent Merksick was sentenced to 160 months on September 17, 2007; Kenneth Russell McCoy (also known as Kenneth Russell Ragland) was sentenced to 216 months on September 24, 2007; Carol Ann Wheeler was sentenced to 170 months on October 12, 2007; Steven Dale Bascue was sentenced to 168 months on October 26, 2007; Travis Lebanouski was sentenced to 97 months on November 2, 2007; and MELVIN PARRA-ACOSTA was sentenced to 135 months on November 16, 2007.
The investigation was conducted by the Council Bluffs, Iowa Police Department, the SWINE Task Force, Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, Pottawattamie County Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration.