West Tennessee Man Sentenced to 14 Years for Methamphetamine Possession

Jackson, TN – Jonathan Wayne Green, 41, of Holladay, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for possession of over 50 grams of actual methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. United States Attorney Kevin G. Ritz announced the sentence today.

According to the information presented in court, on April 16, 2019, an officer with the Camden Police Department responded to a trespassing complaint in a restricted area at Camden General Hospital. The officer observed a pickup truck which matched the description from the complaint. After the truck drove into a nearby McDonald’s parking lot, the officer conducted a traffic stop.

The driver, Jonathan Wayne Green, appeared to be nervous while talking with the officer and confessed that he was on state probation and that he had a large amount of methamphetamine in the backseat of his truck. A search of the truck revealed over a pound of methamphetamine (which was individually wrapped in three separate smaller bags inside of a larger Ziplock bag), cash, and drug paraphernalia. Green admitted to selling methamphetamine earlier that night.

United States District Judge S. Thomas Anderson sentenced Green to 168 months' imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.

This case was investigated by the Camden Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

United States Attorney Kevin Ritz thanked Assistant United States Attorney Josh Morrow, who prosecuted this case, as well as law enforcement partners who investigated the case.

###

For more information, please contact Public Information Officer Cherri Green at (901) 544-4231 or cherri.green@usdoj.gov. Follow @WDTNNews on Twitter for office news and updates.