Fort Smith, Arkansas – David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United
States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Scott Carl
Mangum, age 40, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced today to 120 months in
federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of
Possession with Intent to Distribute more than 5 Kilograms of Cocaine. The
Honorable Judge P. K. Holmes III presided over the sentencing hearings today in
the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
On October 27, 2019, an Arkansas State Police Trooper
conducted a traffic stop on a tractor-trailer traveling on Interstate 40 in
Crawford County, Arkansas, which is located in the Western District of
Arkansas. The Trooper made contact with Mangum, who was the driver and sole
occupant of the tractor-trailer. Mangum consented to a search of the
tractor-trailer, which resulted in Troopers locating a 9mm handgun and a meth
pipe. During the search of Magnum’s
person Troopers located a small baggie of methamphetamine in his pocket. A search of the trailer resulted in Troopers
locating approximately 15 kilograms of suspected cocaine, which was concealed
with the produce that Mangum was transporting.
The suspected cocaine was submitted to the DEA lab for
testing and tested positive as cocaine with a total weight of 15.04 kilograms.
Mangum was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2019
and entered a guilty plea in December 2019.
This case was investigated by the Arkansas State Police and
the Drug Enforcement Administration. Assistant United States Attorney Kenneth
Elser prosecuted the case for the Western District of Arkansas.
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