COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA – Two men and a woman from western Iowa were sentenced to federal prison on drug charges Monday, in Council Bluffs U-S District Court. Court records show 31-year-old Jessica Joy Martinez, of Carroll, will serve 10-years in prison. 40-year-old Shaun Lee Walker, of Council Bluffs will serve 11 1/4 years in prison, and 28-year-old Jonathan Samuel Dings, of, of Glidden, was sentenced to 13.3-years (60 months) in prison. Each was convicted on Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine charges.

Each defendant was ordered to serve five years of supervised release to follow their prison terms and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund. There is no parole in the federal system.

On January 10, 2020, Carroll County law enforcement served a search warrant on Dings’ residence in Glidden. While conducting the search, law enforcement learned Martinez and Walker planned to supply Dings – that day – with approximately a pound of methamphetamine they obtained from Omaha, Nebraska. Dings was to sell the methamphetamine in Carroll and Audubon Counties. Law enforcement attempted to intercept the load car containing the methamphetamine that was driven by Walker with Martinez as a passenger, in Audubon, which resulted in a pursuit
occurring before Walker and Martinez were arrested.

The investigation was conducted by the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, Audubon County Sheriff’s Office, Audubon Police Department, Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Agency. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.