Two people from Okmulgee County have been sentenced in federal court in separate drug cases.
Two people from Okmulgee County have been sentenced in federal court in separate drug cases.
Henryetta resident, 36-year-old Brandis Nicole Fish, was sentenced to over nine years in prison.
Kenneth Roy Nester, 26, of Okmulgee, received a seven-year prison sentence.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced on Wednesday that Fish was sentenced to 110 months’ imprisonment and four years of supervised release.
She was charged with Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine.
The indictment alleged that, from on or about Jan. 27, Fish possessed with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance.
Charges arose from an investigation by Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Safe Trails Task Force.
The Safe Trails Task force is made up of a coalition of numerous federal, state, local and tribal partners.
Safe Trails Task Force allows participating agencies to combine limited resources and increase investigative coordination to target violent crime, drugs, gangs and gaming violations.
Nester was sentenced to 84 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release for Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine.
Charges arose from an investigation by the Okmulgee Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of the Project Safe Neighborhoods (“PSN”) effort in the Eastern District of Oklahoma to reduce violent crime.
PSN is an initiative led and coordinated by the United States Attorney’s Office.
The indictment alleged that, on or about Dec. 30, 2019, Nester “knowingly and intentionally possessed with intent to distribute a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance.”
