GREAT FALLS—A Wolf Point woman convicted of trafficking
methamphetamine on the Fort Peck Reservation was sentenced on Wednesday to 41
months in prison and four years supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme
said.
Taurean Grandchamp, 31, pleaded guilty on Aug. 23 to
possession with intent to distribute meth.
U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided at sentencing.
In October 2017 and in January, the Montana Highway Patrol
made two traffic stops of vehicles with Arizona license plates on the
reservation and near Wolf Point. The driver and passenger were the same in both
stops. Drug information from those stops led law enforcement officers to
Grandchamp, who admitted to distributing meth on the reservation. She told law
enforcement that she was provided with one pound of meth for distribution in
2017. Other individuals also described Grandchamp selling meth with the driver
and passenger of the vehicles that were stopped by the MHP.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Bryan Dake prosecuted the case,
which was investigated by the FBI and the Fort Peck Department of Law and
Justice.
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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