Federal prosecutors have secured convictions in all 27 cases filed against individuals involved in a large-scale meth-trafficking conspiracy based on the Crow Reservation, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich announced during a Thursday press conference.
Twenty-four of the defendants have already been sentenced to a cumulative 165 years in prison. Three defendants are awaiting sentencing. The conspiracy’s alleged leader and another alleged high-level participant, both believed to have connections to the Jalisco cartel, remain fugitives.
U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich announces the disruption of a large methamphetamine trafficking organization on the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservations resulting in 27 convictions. The Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs as well as local law enforcement participated in the raids.
A diagram produced by the U.S. attorney’s office identified seven participants as having high-level involvement, 10 as mid-level and seven as low-level. Twenty-three of the 27 convicted were Montanans, from Lodge Grass, Billings, Crow Agency, Hardin, Garryowen and Lame …