A Wolf Point resident pleaded guilty to drug trafficking meth and fentanyl on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.
Jordan Paige Day, 24, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances. She faces a mandatory minimum of five years to and a maximum of 40 years in prison, a $5 million fine and at least four years of supervised release.
Day was released pending sentencing, which is set for August 30, 2023.
In January 2022, the Idaho State Police stopped a vehicle Day was driving toward Montana. Police searched the vehicle and found methamphetamine and fentanyl pills, according to court documents.
In April 2022, Fort Peck officers searched a residence based on information that Day was at the house and was selling drugs. Officers seized a large bag of meth from the couch and approximately 140 fentanyl pills from under a couch cushion. Day later admitted to selling meth.
Regarding the April incident, Day said that she and another person had picked up multiple pounds of meth and several hundred fentanyl pills and that the meth seized was a portion of those drugs.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ethan R. Plaut is prosecuting the case, which was investigated by the FBI, Idaho State Police, Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office and Fort Peck Department of Law and Justice.
