FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, November 29, 2007
MARVIN DUANE MULLEN and MARLENA HARRIGER 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 Helena on November 29, 2007, before Senior U.S. District Judge Charles C. Lovell, MARVIN DUANE MULLEN, a 58-year-old resident of Shelton, Washington, and MARLENA HARRIGER, a 45-year-old resident of Shelton/Tacoma, Washington, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Sentencing is set for February 28, 2008. MULLEN is currently detained and HARRIGER was released on special conditions.
In an Offer of Proof filed by the United States, the government stated it would have proved at trial the following:
Between April of 2006, and continuing through July of 2007, MULLEN and HARRINGER were involved in a conspiracy with several other individuals to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine in Meagher, Mineral, Lewis and Clark, and Gallatin counties.
MULLEN and HARRINGER each face possible penalties of a mandatory minimum of 10 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 Paulette L. Stewart prosecuted the case for the United States.
The investigation was a cooperative effort between the Bozeman and Helena Missouri River Drug Task Force, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Meagher County Sheriff's Office, the Mineral County Sheriff's Office, the Montana Highway Patrol, and the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office in California.
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A copy of the Offer of Proof can be obtained by contacting Sally Frank at (406) 247-4638.
