Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Robert Earl Partee, II, 28, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Lincoln for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture of substance containing methamphetamine. United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Partee to 225 months in prison followed by a 5-year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
An investigation by law enforcement that included phone analysis, traffic stops, and other investigatory techniques uncovered that from the middle of 2018 until the end of November of 2019, Partee was purchasing methamphetamine and reselling it in large amounts in the Lincoln area. In total, Partee purchased at least 70 pounds of methamphetamine for resale to others. During this time, law enforcement twice seized methamphetamine from Partee and his vehicle. On April 30, 2019, officers stopped Partee’s vehicle for a traffic violation and found more than 300 grams of methamphetamine in the vehicle. Later, on Nov. 13, 2019, law enforcement found methamphetamine on Partee’s person during a traffic stop of his vehicle.
This case was investigated by the Lincoln/Lancaster County Narcotics Task Force.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
