FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, January 11, 2008
SANDRA KERR 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 January 11, 2008, before U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, SANDRA KERR, a 41-year-old resident of Billings, pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Sentencing is set for April 10, 2008. She is currently detained.
At the change of plea proceeding, the government stated it would have proved at trial the following:
From approximately August of 2006, up to and including January of 2007, KERR, Gary Gordon and other individuals were involved in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in the Billings area.
On January 17, 2007, KERR was interviewed by law enforcement and admitted assisting Gary Gordon in counting out his drug money and packaging and "cutting" his methamphetamine.
On March 23, 2007, KERR was again interviewed and admitted she began assisting Gordon with his drug activities in August of 2006 up to January 2007. She also admitted to distributing methamphetamine to four separate individuals on eight separate occasions for Gordon during that time period. KERR further admitted that for three months Gordon received approximately a half-pound of methamphetamine from his supplier every three days. During this time period, KERR admitted to assisting Gordon with distributing and packaging methamphetamine, as well as counting and collecting drug money for Gordon.During the period of the conspiracy, law enforcement seized the following methamphetamine:
November 3, 2006 - 177.5 grams or 144.3 grams of actual methamphetamine;
November 21, 20076 - 196.1 grams or 183.2 grams of actual methamphetamine; and
January 15, 2007 - 206.8 grams or 168.8 grams of actual methamphetamine.
Gordon pled guilty to federal charges and is awaiting sentencing.
KERR faces possible penalties of a mandatory 10 years in prison and could be sentenced to life in prison, an $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 conducted by the Billings Big Sky Safe Streets Task Force.
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