(Missoula) – Matthew Lucas Jones pleaded pleaded guilty on December of 2022 to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances. US District Judge Donald Molloy sentenced Jones to six years and six months in prison followed by five years of supervised release.
In court documents, the government alleged that on June 1st, 2021 law enforcement stopped Jones while he was absconding from state probation for a traffic violation after he drove into oncoming traffic. Officers searched a backpack in Jones’ vehicle and found heroin containing fentanyl, methamphetamine, dozens of distribution baggies and a pipe bomb.
