FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, May 09, 2008
DEREK ARD, PEGGY GLOCK and SUMMER OWENSBY 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 May 8, 2008, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, DEREK ARD, a 31-year-old resident of Bozeman, PEGGY GLOCK, a 57-year-old resident of Bozeman, and SUMMER OWENSBY, a 22-year-old resident of Bozeman, appeared for sentencing.
ARD was sentenced to a term of:
- Prison: 175 months
- Special Assessment: $100
- Supervised Release: 5 years
GLOCK was sentenced to a term of:
- Prison: 24 months
- Special Assessment: $100
- Supervised Release: 5 years
OWENSBY was sentenced to a term of:
- Prison: 41 months
- Special Assessment: $100
- Supervised Release: 5 years
They were sentenced in connection with their guilty pleas to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribution of methamphetamine.
At the sentencing proceeding, the government stated it would have proved at trial the following:
From late 2004 through June of 2005, ARD, GLOCK, OWENSBY, Tamalee Lindbom, Marvin "Buster" Quesenberry, Crystal Busby, and others were involved in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Central Montana.
Lindbom, Quesenberry and Busby pled guilty to federal charges and have been sentenced.
Because there is no parole in the federal system, the "truth in sentencing" guidelines mandate that they will likely serve all of the time imposed by the court. In the federal system, they do 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 conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
