BILLINGS—U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme announced today that
Billings resident Robert John Bigback was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in
prison and five years of supervised release for distributing methamphetamine.
Bigback, 23, pleaded guilty on July 16, 2018 to two counts
of distribution of meth.
U.S. District Judge Susan P. Watters presided at sentencing.
After receiving information about meth for sale in April
2017, the FBI drug task force used a confidential informant to buy meth from a
co-defendant at a hardware store in the Billings Heights. After the
co-defendant counted the money, Bigback gave the informant the meth. Another
meth sale was arranged a few days later and occurred at Rimrock Mall, where
Bigback conducted the sale in the bathroom of a department store. The two sales
involved about 20 grams of pure meth, which is the equivalent of about 160
individual doses and has a street value of about $2,000.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lori Suek prosecuted the case, which
was investigated by the FBI Task Force.
This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a
program bringing together federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement
agencies and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and make
neighborhoods safer for everyone. The
Department of Justice reinvigorated PSN in 2017 as part of its renewed focus on
targeting violent criminals.
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