Fairview man gets four years for trafficking meth

by The Associated Press
| June 6, 2014 9:00 PM

BILLINGS — An Eastern Montana man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for his role in trafficking methamphetamine in the Bakken region.

U.S. District Judge Susan Watters sentenced 52-year-old Robert John Ferrell of Fairview on Wednesday, departing below the guideline range because he has diabetes and liver disease.

Ferrell was one of about a dozen people arrested in a meth conspiracy that ran from August 2012 to February 2012 in the Bakken region of eastern Montana and North Dakota. He pleaded guilty in to possession with intent to distribute meth in February.

Charging documents say Ferrell received 50 grams of “very highly pure meth” from Robert Farrell Armstrong of Moses Lake, Washington, and distributed what he didn’t use himself.

Armstrong is scheduled to be sentenced next month.