BISMARCK - Acting US Attorney Chris C. Myers announced that on March 23, 2015, Daniel Adam Connelly, 30, of Minot, ND, was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to serve 12 years and 7 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance (methamphetamine), to be followed by three years of supervised release. Connelly was also ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victim’s Fund.
In October 2012, law enforcement officials, while investigating drug trafficking in the Minot, ND, area, executed a search warrant at Connelly’s residence where they found approximately 6.5 ounces of methamphetamine, with a street value of $15,000-30,000, in Connelly’s bedroom inside the drawer of a plastic storage container. Law enforcement officials also located a loaded.357 rifle next to the storage container. Other information indicated that Connelly had obtained meth from Arizona and California in order to distribute it in North Dakota.
The case was investigated by the United States Department of Homeland Security, the Ward County Narcotics Task Force, the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and the Minot Police Department.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David Hagler prosecuted the case
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
