Drug Conspiracies Spanning from about May 2020 to about May 2023 that Involved Over 35 Kilograms of Methamphetamine and other drugs from Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and California to Northwest Iowa have been Dismantled

12 persons were federally indicted in the Northern District of Iowa, 11 of whom were convicted by plea or trial and sentenced, namely:

Jeffrey Linn (Cherokee, IA),                                         34 months’ imprisonment

Dustin Martinez (Sutherland, IA),                               87 months’ imprisonment

Jason Werner (Cherokee, IA),                                      28 months’ imprisonment

Lauretta Payce (Fontana, CA),                                     64 months’ imprisonment

Christina Gianopoulos-Rohrer (Henderson, NV),          47 months’ imprisonment

James Conlan (Las Vegas, NV),                                   100 months’ imprisonment

Andrea Romo (Gardena, CA),                                       240 months’ imprisonment

Carl Thompson (Larrabee, IA),                                     45 months’ imprisonment

Craig Miller (Cherokee, IA),                                         36 months’ imprisonment

Lenora Jennings (Las Vegas, NV),                               3 years’ probation

Sabrina Bradley (Pahrump, NV),                                 42 months’ imprisonment

Jerilynn Wilson (Las Vegas, NV),                                 Acquitted

Two persons were charged and convicted in Nevada State District Court, namely:

Robert Randall (Encino, CA) and Robert Allen (Sylmar, CA).  Two persons have been charged in Kansas State District Court, namely: Ricky Lincoln (Tucson, AZ) and Keven Jones (Tucson, AZ). Two remaining federal targets of these conspiracies continue to be investigated.           

Over the course of the multi-jurisdictional investigation, various law enforcement agencies seized 46 pounds methamphetamine, ½ pound fentanyl (pills), ½ pound heroin and a firearm. Various defendants in the conspiracy, namely Martinez, Gianoplous-Rohrer, Payce, Thompson, Werner, Linn, Bradley, and Conlan also admitted to their involvement in the distribution of at least 30 more pounds of methamphetamine over about the same conspiracy time frame.

In the Northern District of Iowa, the case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Shawn S. Wehde and was investigated by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program of the United States Department of Justice through a cooperative effort of the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement and USAO for NDIA assisted by the; Tri-State DEA Drug Task Force, USPIS, Cherokee Police Department, Iowa Great Lakes Drug Task Force, FBI Las Vegas, Southern Nevada High Impact Narcotics Task Force, Colorado State Patrol, Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation HSI and USMS. 

Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. 

The case file numbers are 22-4066; 22-4049; 21-4032; and 22-4002.  Follow us on Twitter @USAO_NDIA.