Council Bluffs Resident Sentenced To Ten Years For Manufacturing Methamphetamine
Des Moines, IA- On February 1, 2008, forty-two year old Mark Allen Major of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced to ten years for Manufacturing Methamphetamine in Western Iowa announced United States Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker. During sentencing, Major was also ordered to pay an assessment of $100 to The Crime Victim Fund, and to serve an eight year term of supervised release following incarceration, by Senior United States District Judge Ronald E. Longstaff.
Major entered a guilty plea to manufacturing methamphetamine in Western Iowa on March 4, 2007. Major was arrested by Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Deputies on March 4, 2007, after he was found standing near a vehicle which contained a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory. A search of the vehicle also produced the remnants of a previous manufacturing process.
The investigation was conducted by the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, the SWINE Task Force, Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, and the Pottawattamie County Attorney’s Office and prosecuted in federal court by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Iowa.