Nevada Woman Pleads Guilty To Federal Drug Charges In Idaho
BOISE, Idaho - Sadith Chavez-Perez, 23, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty on March 20, 2014, in United States District Court to distribution of methamphetamine. Chavez-Perez was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise, Idaho, on February 11, 2014.
According to the plea agreement, on March 27, 2013, Chavez-Perez, along with a co-defendant met with an undercover officer in Meridian, Idaho. At the meeting Chavez-Perez discussed future drug transactions with the undercover officer. On April 11, 2013, Chavez-Perez made arrangements to deliver five ounces of methamphetamine to the undercover officer. The methamphetamine was delivered by a co-defendant later that day. On or about May 15, 2013, Chavez-Perez arranged to deliver two pounds of methamphetamine to the undercover officer. While en route to make the delivery, the defendant was stopped by law enforcement in Ely, Nevada. In the vehicle, officers located 1321 grams of actual methamphetamine.
The charge is punishable by up to 10 years to life in prison, a maximum fine of $10 million, and at least five years of supervised release.
Chavez-Perez is set for sentencing on August 5, 2014, before Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Boise.
The case was the result of a joint investigation of the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF), led by the Drug Enforcement (DEA), in conjunction with U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) Homeland Security (HSI), Meridian Police Department, and the Ada County Sheriff’s Office. Other federal agencies participating in the OCDETF program include the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and (ATF), Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, Federal Bureau of (FBI), and U.S. Marshals Service.
The OCDETF program is a federal multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional task force that supplies supplemental federal funding to federal and state agencies involved in the identification, investigation, and prosecution of major drug trafficking organizations.
