A federal grand jury has indicted a 33 year old man from Little Eagle for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
Corey Lynn Flying Bye, Jr., pled not guilty.
The Indictment alleges that between January 2020 and January 2021, on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Flying Bye knowingly and intentionally conspired with others to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
The maximum penalty upon conviction is up to 40 years in federal prison, a $5,000,000 fine, a lifetime of supervised release, and $100 to the Federal Crime Victims Fund. Restitution may also be ordered.
The investigation is being conducted by the Northern Plains Safe Trails Drug Enforcement Task Force, the Mobridge Police Department, the Corson
County Sheriff’s Office, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Justice Services.
Flying Bye was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending trial.
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