United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that William Wade, 21, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced on May 22, 2020, to 120 months in prison by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. There is no parole in the federal system. Upon release from prison, Wade will serve five years of supervised release.
After getting out of prison in June of 2018, Wade began distributing dealer amounts of methamphetamine to a number of people in Lincoln over the course of the next year. At least six cooperating witnesses provided details about their having purchased or received methamphetamine from Wade in 2018 and 2019 in varying quantities. On June 25, 2019, a confidential informant working with Lincoln Police investigators bought 51 grams of pure or actual methamphetamine from Wade.
This case was investigated by the Lincoln/Lancaster County Narcotics Drug Task Force.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
