FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
JO LYNN PENROD SENTENCED IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT
Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Billings, on December 19, 2007, before U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, JO LYNN PENROD, a 42-year-old resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, appeared for sentencing. PENROD was sentenced to a term of:
- Prison: 52 months
- Special Assessment: $100
- Supervised Release: 5 years
PENROD was sentenced in connection with her guilty plea to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
At the sentencing 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.
Because there is no parole in the federal system, the "truth in sentencing" guidelines mandate that PENROD will likely serve all of the time imposed by the court. In the federal system, PENROD does have the opportunity to earn a sentence reduction for "good behavior." However, this reduction will not exceed 15% of the overall sentence.
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.
