CEDAR RAPIDS – Last week, three Cedar County men were sentenced to federal prison on methamphetamine manufacturing charges. Telly Ranzenberger and Brian Hagen were sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment and 48 months’ imprisonment, respectively. In a separate case, Tracey McGhghy was sentenced to 90 months’ imprisonment
Hagen, 43, and Ranzenberger, 42, from Lowden, Iowa, and McGhghy, 48, from Manley, Iowa, received the prison terms after pleading guilty to conspiring to manufacture methamphetamine. At separate plea hearings, each defendant admitted that he entered into a conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine.
Ranzenberger and Hagen were sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Senior Judge Mark W. Bennett. McGhghy was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge Leonard T. Strand. Each defendant was ordered to serve a 3-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
The cases were prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ravi T. Narayan and investigated by the Cedar County Sheriff’s Office. The Cedar County Sheriff’s Office received assistance from the Muscatine County Drug Task Force, the Iowa State Patrol, the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, and the Johnson County Drug Task Force.
If federal law claims manufacturing of meth holds no less than a five year prison sentence; why is it that only two of the three received the mandatory time? Telling on one another should not have an impact on something that is mandatory by law.
It’s Manly and alot more birds in the nest up there.
Is that Manly or Manley Ia.