Description: Aberdeen, North Dakota criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with distribution of a controlled substance.

Spencer Jacob Rinehart, age 29, was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 13, 2021. He pled guilty on December 7, 2021.

Between January 1, 2017, and April 29, 2020, Rinehart knowingly and intentionally conspired with others to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine in Mobridge, South Dakota.

This case was investigated by the Mobridge Police Department, the Northern Plains Safe Trails Drug Enforcement Task Force, the Corson County Sheriff’s Office, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement Services, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Justice Services. Assistant U.S. Attorney Cameron J. Cook prosecuted the case.

Rinehart was immediately turned over to the custody of the U.S. Marshals.

21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), and 841(b)(1)(B) CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
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Outcome: Defendant was 60 months imprisonment to be served concurrent to any sentence imposed in Fifth Judicial Circuit Court case 64-CR121-000152; 5 years Supervised Release; $1000 fine and $100 Special Assessment.

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