(Billings) – U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said this week that a Billings man who admitted to trafficking drugs after he broke into the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Building to see if agents had found the ten pounds of meth hidden in his truck was sentenced this week to five years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release.
Anthony Jacob Johnson, 43 pleaded guilty in April to possession with intent to distribute meth.
In court documents, the government alleged that in January 2021, an investigation into methamphetamine led to Johnson as a source of supply. Agents determined that Johnson traveled to Colorado in March and again in April 2021. Upon Johnson’s return to Montana, a Montana Highway Patrol trooper conducted a traffic stop of Johnson’s vehicle. Agents executed a search warrant on the vehicle and located ten vacuumed sealed bricks of meth. The bricks totaled approximately 10.39 pounds of meth, which is the equivalent of about 37, 653 doses. In the early morning, the DEA discovered a large hole in a garage door at its facility. Evidence showed that Johnson had gone to the facility the night before, cut a large hole in the garage and entered his seized vehicle while it was in DEA’s custody, hoping agents had not located the meth. Johnson admitted he distributed approximately eight pounds to one hundred pounds of meth in the community over five months.
