COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – A man from Pottawattamie County was sentenced last week on a drug charge in Council Bluffs U-S District Court. 48-year old James Michael Willett, Sr., of Council Bluffs, was sentenced Dec. 15th to 135 months (11 1/4 years) in prison, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Willett was ordered to serve ten years of supervised
release to follow his prison term and pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
He pled guilty to the offense on August 04, 2020.

The Southwest Iowa Narcotics Task Force opened an investigation on Willett and other co-conspirators for distributing methamphetamine in the Council Bluffs metro area in 2019. On November 5, 2019, staff at a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska, contacted law enforcement after an employee observed drugs in a room where Willet had been staying. Law enforcement searched the room and located methamphetamine, fentanyl, and marijuana.

The investigation was conducted by the Council Bluffs Police Department, Omaha Police Department, Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, and the Southwest Iowa Narcotics Task Force. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.