Three men involved in a heist timed to coincide with Super Bowl XLI pleaded guilty Monday to charges that they conspired to make and distribute meth between June 2006 and May 2, 2009.
James Robert Everson Jr. (known to his friends as "Bimbo"), Micah Lee Boley and Eugene Edward Dove all pleaded guilty in federal court (they also missed a great game between the Bears and Colts).
Last May, I called this case the Ocean's 11 of meth robberies, and I stick by it.
Everson admitted that he and Shawn Anthony Clinkenbeard sneaked into the Sanofi-Aventis U.S.
pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Kansas City, Missouri, and hid out until Super Bowl Sunday in 2007. They sprung into action after kickoff.
The 42-year-old Everson took a
female security guard hostage at gunpoint, handcuffed her and stole a 110-pound drum of pseudophedrine
powder.
Everson dragged the drum by rope to a dock area where
he met 37-year-old Clinkenbeard, who was driving a flat bed truck. They loaded up and drove
off, using the guard's security key to exit the north gate.
But the meth game strains relationships. Everson and Clinkenbeard
worked together but the operation fell apart when Clinkenbeard believed
he was being cheated and went into business for himself. Business
meaning manufacturing meth.
Everson and Boley face mandatory minimum sentences of 10 years in
federal prison without parole. They could also get life. On top of
that, Everson is looking at a mandatory minimum sentence of seven years
in federal prison (that'll be served consecutively).
Dove, who assisted in manufacturing meth and also played the role of distributor, could get 30 years in federal prison without parole. We'll find
out at their yet-to-be-scheduled sentencing hearings, coming up after
presentence investigations by the U.S. Probation Office.
Last month, Clinkenbeard and five others pleaded guilty to their roles in the operation.
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