COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA – The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa reports a Council Bluffs man, 39-year-old Theodore L. Snow, III, was sentenced Friday in Council Bluffs U-S District Court, to serve 130 months (10.8 years) in prison, following his plea of guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime. Snow will be on supervised release for five years after his release from imprisonment.

On March 3, 2021, a Council Bluffs Police Officer stopped Snow’s car for numerous traffic violations. Snow consented to a search of the car. During the search, the officer located drug paraphernalia, methamphetamine, and shotgun shells, and located a loaded pistol in the waist band of Snow’s pants. Snow is prohibited from possessing firearms because of a prior felony conviction. Between the fall 2020 and spring 2021, Snow was distributing a large amount of methamphetamine in the Council Bluffs area.

The Council Bluffs Police Department, Southwest Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigated the case. This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.

In May 2021, the Department of Justice launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.