Officials with the U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa said Friday, a District Judge sentenced 45-year old Dale Volney Freeman, of Council Bluffs, to prison for 10-years (120 months), for possession of methamphetamine. Freeman was also ordered to serve seven years of supervised release following his imprisonment and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.

Freeman pled guilty to the charge on March 23rd, 2018. The case arose from officers being called to a local motel for a disturbance involving a man with a gun trying to break into a room. When officers arrived they determined that an unknown male had been trying to get into a room which had been rented by Freeman. Officers then found methamphetamine in Freeman’s motel room. Freeman was located in another room where he had over 250 grams of pure methamphetamine. Freeman was also carrying approximately $1,600 cash.

The matter was investigated by Council Bluffs Police Department, Southwest Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force and the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation Lab. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.