(Sioux City)– A Sheldon man has pleaded guilty in U-S District Court to a meth charge.
24-year-old Dustin Leigh Howard entered the plea to one count of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine within a thousand feet of a school and to distributing a controlled substance to a person under the age of 21.
At a plea hearing Howard admitted that from November 2002 through July 9th, 2003 he conspired with others to manufacture methamphetamine within a thousand feet of the Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn Middle School in Sanborn. He also admitted to distributing meth to a person under the age of 21.
Howard is being held in the custody of the U-S Marshal pending sentencing, which will be held once a pre-sentence report is prepared.
Howard faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years imprisonment and a maximum of 80 years imprisonment; a four million dollar fine and up to eight years of supervised release following any imprisonment.
The case was investigated by the O’Brien and Lyon County Sheriff’s Offices, the Lyon County Attorney’s Office and the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement.
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