SIOUX CITY – A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced February 3, 2014, to twelve years in federal prison.
Ryan Hansen, 32, from Algona, Iowa, received the prison term after a September 6, 2013, guilty plea to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
At the guilty plea, Hansen admitted his involvement from September 2012 through March 2013 in a conspiracy that distributed at least 500 grams of actual (pure) methamphetamine. Hansen admitted to obtaining ounces of methamphetamine in Minnesota on multiple occasions and distributing it in Iowa. On March 16, 2013, law enforcement conducted a traffic stop of the vehicle Hansen was driving. Officers located and seized several bags of “ice” methamphetamine totaling 14.76 grams of actual (pure) methamphetamine. Hansen admitted he had traveled to Minnesota to obtain the methamphetamine, transported it back to Iowa, and sold some of the methamphetamine in the Mason City area prior to being stopped by law enforcement.
Hansen was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Hansen was sentenced to 144 months’ imprisonment. A special assessment of $100 was imposed. He must also serve a ten-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Hansen is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Shawn S. Wehde and investigated by the Kossuth County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa DCI Criminalistics Laboratory.
GOING TO PRISON
This is a great day. Another doper loser off the streets.
Yep! made it more profitable for the NEXT guy!
Don’t you feel good we just spent a another half million dollars on one person? And don’t get to collect any income taxes AND he goes on SSI when he gets out. AND we pay all his medical expenses.
The wheels on the bus go round and round…round and round.
We are so rich!!! We can spend a half million and receive no income tax for just ONE person. And another and another and another…
so are you saying just let him go?
@SUCKS-you are wrong on this one. The guy was a METH DEALER and should be put away for a long time. There is no excuse for dealing in the hard stuff that kills people. I would agree with your argument for small amounts of pot but never for the real hard stuff.
Not to jump into the debate, but what do you call Everclear? Spirytus Polish Vodka? Golden Grain? Rum? Absinthe? I’d call those the hard stuff…yet I can go down to the grocery store right now and buy a bottle if I chose to. Time to end the drug war and allocate monies to be spent in more productive ways.
“Algona meth dealer sent to prison for a dozen years”
Ok, so are you bragging or complaining?
They should have hanged him.