FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, March 27, 2008
CLACY PEDERSEN 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 March 27, 2008, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, CLACY PEDERSEN, a 22-year-old resident of Billings, pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Sentencing is set for June 26, 2008. She is currently detained.
At the change of plea proceeding, the government stated it would have proved at trial the following:
From approximately January of 2006 to July of 2006, PEDERSEN and several other individuals engaged in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute over 500 grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance, in the Billings area.
PEDERSEN faces possible penalties of a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and could be sentenced to life, 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 conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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