Man gets 11 years for trafficking meth, fentanyl to Montana

James Robert Harrelson, 49, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, pleaded responsible in September 2022 to possession with intent to distribute managed substances.

U.S. District Choose Susan P. Watters presided.

In April 2022, officers with the Japanese Montana Excessive Depth Drug Trafficking Space Activity Pressure obtained info that Harrelson was trafficking medication from Colorado to Billings, court docket paperwork alleged.

An investigation led to a site visitors cease of Harrelson by Yellowstone County Sheriff’s deputies. Activity power officers searched the automobile and located meth, fentanyl tablets, drug scales, plastic baggies, smoking gadgets, hypodermic needles and a 9mm handgun. Harrelson admitted that he was transporting the medication from Colorado to Billings and that the handgun was his.

Assistant U.S. Lawyer Colin M. Rubich prosecuted the case, which was investigated by the Japanese Montana Excessive Depth Drug Trafficking Space Activity Pressure.

This case is a part of Challenge Protected Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing collectively all ranges of regulation enforcement and the communities they serve to scale back violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everybody. On Might 26, 2021, the Division launched a violent crime discount technique strengthening PSN based mostly on these core rules: fostering belief and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that assist forestall violence from occurring within the first place, setting targeted and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the outcomes.