CEDAR RAPIDS – A woman who trafficked hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine in Iowa was sentenced today to more than seventeen years in federal prison.
Sandra Ann Deyerle, age 30, received the prison term after a May 4, 2021 guilty plea to one-count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and one-count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
Information at sentencing showed that, in 2020, Deyerle became involved in a large-scale drug trafficking organization with ties to organized crime in Mexico. On October 30, 2020, after a thorough investigation, law enforcement searched Deyerle’s residence and storage units associated with Deyerle. Law enforcement recovered a gun and 100 grams of heroin from Deyerle’s residence, and 450 grams of heroin and several pounds of methamphetamine from storage units. Deyerle admitted that she had received 200 pounds of methamphetamine during her involvement in the drug trafficking organization.
Deyerle was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams. Deyerle was sentenced to 210 months’ imprisonment, and she must also serve a five-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Deyerle is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until she can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Dillan Edwards. This case was investigated as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program of the United States Department of Justice through a cooperative effort of the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Task Force, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office, the Green County Sheriff’s Office, and the Elbert County, Colorado Sheriff’s Office.
The last place you want to be with this new variant now here. It’s absolutely scary how fast it spreads. It’ll be everywhere in a week. Will it get worst? It does appear it’s raised the bar as mutations go. The onset of cold like symptoms in the blink of the eye. Cough, fatigue, etc. seem common. Instead of herd immunity it’s more like a herd plague. No way to stop this in schools. 40% chance will slip back into shutdowns or continue to linger in uncertainty as a already bumpy road gets much more difficult in 2022. This will spread through a prison in a day. More grim than the delta variant.