PIERRE, (KCCR) — A Pierre man will spend time in federal prison custody on drug and firearms charges. U-S Attorney Alison Ramsdell says 37 year-old Scott Reiners will serve 12 years and four months in federal prison for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person. A one-thousand dollar fine, 200-dollar assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund and five years of supervised release are also a part of the sentenced handed down by U-S District Judge Eric Schulte last week. Ramsdell says the conspiracy Reiners was involved in spanned from September of 2022 to April of 2023 in which Reiners and several others distributed methamphetamine on the Crow Creek and Lower Brule Sioux Indian Reservations. Reiners helped to distribute between five and 15 kilograms of meth. Reiners was stopped by law enforcement where authorities seized 254 grams of 97-percent pure methamphetamine and a handgun. Reiners was prohibited from having the handgun due too three prior federal felony convictions.
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