ALBUQUERQUE - Tyrone D’Chaunn Nash, 35, of Lovington, N.M. was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 87 months in prison followed by 4 years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
Nash previously pleaded guilty to this charge on July 2, 2018. In Nash’s plea agreement, he admitted going to deliver 6 ounces of methamphetamine to another person in Lovington on June 19, 2018. However, before Nash could complete the transaction, a deputy from the Lea County Sheriff’s Office stopped Nash, seized his drugs, and arrested him.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Lea County Drug Task Force investigated this case. The Las Cruces Branch Office prosecuted the case as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), a national program consisting of nine regions, which operates across federal, state and national boundaries. The various federal agencies within OCDETF work through their respective coordinators and arrive at decisions by consensus. The United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Mexico is a member district of the Southwest Border Region, which covers Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma.
The Lea County Drug Task Force is comprised of officers from the Lea County Sheriff’s Office, Hobbs Police Department, Lovington Police Department, Eunice Police Department the Tatum Police Department and the Jal Police Department, and is part of the New Mexico High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Region VI Drug Task Force. The HIDTA program was created by Congress with the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. HIDTA is a program of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) which provides assistance to federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies operating in areas determined to be critical drug-trafficking regions of the United States and seeks to reduce drug trafficking and production by facilitating coordinated law enforcement activities and information sharing.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
