PIERRE, (KCCR) — A Mobridge man has been sentenced to serve 10 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine with other across central South Dakota and specifically the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. U-S Attorney Alison Ramsdell says 28 year-old Eric Traversie will serve five years of supervised release after completing his prison term Traversie was indicted by a federal grand jury in February of this year and pleaded guilty at the end of April. Ramsdell says Traversie was involved in a conspiracy to distribute meth from April of 2024 to February of 2025. Traversie himself was involved in distributing between one-point-five and five kilograms of meth. Traversie was also involved in a traffic stop where law enforcement sized 237 grams of 99-percent pure methamphetamine. The Dewey County Sheriff’s Office, F-B-I, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement assisted in the investigation. Traversie was taken by the U-S Marshals Service to begin serving his sentence.
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