(Sioux City)– An Okoboji man has pled guilty in federal court to meth and possession of ammunition charges.
26-year-old Cole Rongved entered the plea Thursday in U.S. District Court to one count of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and one count of illegally possessing ammunition as he was subject to an order of protection in the Iowa District Court for Dickinson county.
Rongved admitted at a plea hearing that he was involved in a conspiracy from May, 2018 through January 2019 that distributed more than three pounds of methamphetamine in and near Dickinson county. Rongved admitted he and two associated acquired more than two pounds of the drug in Council Bluffs for later distribution in the lakes area.
Court documents say that during search warrants that were executed on Rongved’s residence in Okoboji, law enforcement located and seized over 1,000 rounds of ammunition, over five pounds of marijuana, 37 doses of LSD, four grams of methamphetamine, over two pounds of psilocybin mushrooms, nearly $38,000 in cash and various drug trafficking items and drug paraphernalia.
Rongved is in the custody of a U.S. Marshal pending sentencing. He faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years’ imprisonment up to life in prison, a $10 million fine and atleast five years of supervised release following any imprisonment.
