Articles Tagged: drug trafficking

Trials were down for federal prosecutors in 2025 after reaching an all time high in the last four years, but caseloads were 14.5 percent higher, with guns and drugs being the top charges.

A Coralville woman convicted for distributing “thousands“ of fentanyl pills in 2024 was sentenced this week to 7 years in federal prison. She transported the pills from Washington and was nabbed when she returned to Iowa.

A Cedar Rapids man who was distributing fentanyl was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison. Officers recovered 227 pills containing the drug during a traffic stop.

A Cedar Rapids man was convicted last week on federal charges stemming from a drug deal gone bad near Kirkwood Community College last August. State charges were dismissed after he was indicted in federal court. He faces up to 40 years.

A judge won’t dismiss a first-degree murder charge against Andrew Shaw, accused of hiring two men to fatally stab Chris Bagley in 2018. The judge also ruled in favor of the defense to exclude some testimony.

An Illinois man, who qualified as a career offender with three drug convictions, was sentenced to over 13 years in federal prison. He distributed what appeared to be heroin to a regular buyer who overdosed because the drug contained fentanyl.

Colby Joseph Manley, 26, pleaded guilty in January to four counts of distribution and aiding and abetting the distribution of a controlled substance and two counts of distribution of a controlled substance.

A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced Friday to life in prison on charges that he conspired with others to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine, according to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa.

A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced last week to 30 years in federal prison on charges that he sold methamphetamine and laundered the funds associated with the drug trafficking.

An Oklahoma woman faces two felony charges and two misdemeanors after a deputy reported finding a black suitcase and black garbage bag containing vacuum-sealed bags of marijuana.

A Marion man was the last of 12 sentenced in a large Cedar Rapids meth trafficking ring. They were bringing in shipments from California and distributing to customers in the Cedar Rapids area from 2017 through 2022.

A Cedar Rapids man, who was convicted this week for drug trafficking, had a source in California who would send packages of meth through the mail. Investigators intercepted 46 packages, which had a total weight of over 700 pounds of the drug.

Calub Storlie was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison after accepting a guilty plea in December 2022 for one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and one count of being an unlawful drug user in possession of a firearm.

A judge told a Cedar Rapids man he had “willful ignorance” because he denied knowing the “incense” he sold at his store that made over $1.3 million in 18 months was synthetic marijuana.

Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley sat down in Cedar Rapids with law enforcement and a retail leader to discuss how retail theft is enabling the illicit drug trade.