Man gets life for robbery, drugs
Fred Miles Thompson, 55, of Fargo was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison on charges of drug trafficking and abetting a robbery in furtherance of drug trafficking in federal court in Bismarck, according to Timothy Q. Purdon, U.S. Attorney for North Dakota.By: Forum News Service, The Jamestown Sun
BISMARCK — Fred Miles Thompson, 55, of Fargo was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison on charges of drug trafficking and abetting a robbery in furtherance of drug trafficking in federal court in Bismarck, according to Timothy Q. Purdon, U.S. Attorney for North Dakota.
Thompson pleaded guilty Oct. 4 to distributing in the Fargo area between 50 and 200 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine as part of a drug conspiracy.
He also admitted to requesting Steve Gibson, Mason Peet and Charles Butcher to rob a Stop-N-Go convenience store in south Fargo on Oct. 26, 2011. They used a .22 caliber rifle.
Thompson received a 40-year sentence on the drug charge, and the life sentence on the robbery charge.
The robbers have also been sentenced in Cass County District Court.
Gibson pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy and got four years in prison. Peet pleaded guilty to robbery and terrorizing and got four years. Butcher was convicted of criminal conspiracy and got 10 years.
More from around the web
RSS Feeds