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The United States Department of Justice FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
JULIAN TIM MATHIS SENTENCED IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT
Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Billings, on March 15, 2007, before U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, JULIAN TIM MATHIS, a 49-year-old resident of Billings, appeared for sentencing. MATHIS was sentenced to a term of:
Prison: 240 months
Special Assessment: $100
Supervised Release: 10 years
MATHIS was sentenced in connection with his guilty plea to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine and cocaine base.
At the sentencing proceeding, the government stated it would have proved at trial the following:
From approximately November of 2003 up to late 2005, MATHIS was involved in a conspiracy to obtain powder cocaine, some of which was then converted to crack cocaine and distributed along with powder cocaine in the Billings area.
Witnesses would have testified that MATHIS taught two co-conspirators how to make crack cocaine out of powder cocaine. MATHIS also distributed and sold cocaine and cocaine powder.
On the following dates, MATHIS and a co-conspirator sold gram quantities of cocaine powder or cocaine base to a confidential informant: May 11, 2005; May 12, 2005; May 27 2005; and June 1, 2005. Tapes of recorded phone calls and the controlled buys would have been presented at trial.
Law enforcement officers and co-conspirators would have testified as to MATHIS' role in the conspiracy.
Because there is no parole in the federal system, the "truth in sentencing" guidelines mandate that MATHIS will likely serve all of the time imposed by the court. In the federal system, MATHIS does have the opportunity to earn a sentence reduction for "good behavior." However, this reduction will not exceed 15% of the overall sentence.
Assistant U.S. Attorney James E. Seykora prosecuted the case for the United States.
The investigation was a cooperative effort between the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Billings Big Sky Safe Streets Task Force and the Drug Enforcement Administration.United States Attorney's Office for the District of Montana
P.O. Box
1478
Billings, MT 59103
CONTACT
Kurt Alme
First Assistant U.S. Attorney
(406) 246-4669