FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
JO LYNN PENROD PLEADS GUILTY IN U.S. FEDERAL COURT
Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Billings on September 25, 2007, before U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, JO LYNN PENROD, a 42-year-old resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Sentencing is set for December 19, 2007. She is currently detained.
At the change of plea proceeding, the government stated it would have proved at trial the following:
From approximately January until May of 2006, PENROD and several other individuals were engaged in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine in the Billings area.
PENROD faces possible penalties of a mandatory ten years in prison and could be sentenced to life in prison, a $4,000,000 fine and 5 years supervised release.
Assistant U.S. Attorney James E. Seykora prosecuted the case for the United States.
The investigation was a cooperative effort between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force.
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