Three Sentenced on Drug Charges

U.S. Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that three individuals charged with conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance were sentenced on July 11, 2011, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann. Errol Medicine, age 50, Wynona Medicine, age 52, and Wilma Medicine, age 44, were each sentenced to three years of probation.

The defendants were indicted by a federal grand jury in October 2010. The charge relates to the sale of nine pills containing hydrocodone, a Schedule III controlled substance, in April of 2009.

This case was investigated by the Northern Plains Safe Trails Drug Enforcement Task Force. Assistant U.S. Attorney Ted L. McBride prosecuted the case.