OKLAHOMA CITY – Four women with state criminal records that range from shoplifting and joyriding to assorted drug charges, kidnapping and accessory to murder, have been sentenced to lengthy federal prison terms for attempting to distribute methamphetamine.
The defendants include Crystal Leann Rodriguez (a/k/a Crystal Sonyamanchez Rodriguez), 28; Aimee Michelle Salem, 42; Tara Lynette Humphries, 39; and Cheyenne Machelle Delodge, 36.
Besides imposing the prison sentences, U.S. District Judge Patrick Wyrick ordered the forfeiture of 10 firearms and $95,452 cash found in the women’s possession. Two other weapons that apparently were stolen were returned to their owners.
The four women were among more than 40 defendants snared in a multi-jurisdictional investigation of a drug trafficking enterprise.
A federal grand jury in the Western District of Oklahoma indicted all four on charges of participating in a drug conspiracy in April and early May 2019, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, possession of a semi-automatic assault weapon in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and being felons in possession of a firearm. Humphries also was indicted on a charge of maintaining a drug-involved residence in southwest Oklahoma City.
Later that year the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed two superseding charges against them: possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.
All four women pleaded guilty to both of those counts in November 2019 and were sentenced by Judge Wyrick.
• Humphries was ordered to spend 352 months in federal prison: 24 years and 4 months on the meth charge and 5 years on the gun charge, the sentences to run consecutively (one after the other).
Humphries was charged in Hughes County in 2013 with kidnapping and being an accessory to murder, and pleaded guilty in March 2014. The next month she was convicted in Pottawatomie County of possession of a controlled dangerous substance. Although Humphries was sentenced to 15 years in prison, Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) records indicate she was incarcerated for a little over four and a half years: from April 2014 until late December 2018.
• Rodriguez was given 25 years in federal prison: 20 years on the meth charge and 5 years on the gun charge, the sentences to run consecutively.
Rodriguez, from Muskogee, dropped out of school after the eighth grade, court records show.
She pleaded guilty in Tulsa County District Court in 2016 to possession of methamphetamine and narcotics paraphernalia, and received a two-year deferred prison sentence.
A year later Rodriguez pleaded guilty in Tulsa County to joyriding (reduced from unauthorized use of a motor vehicle), driving without a license, failure to carry insurance verification, and public intoxication. Before being sentenced on those charges she pleaded guilty in Tulsa County in 2018 to possession and distribution of methamphetamine and was sentenced to four years in state prison. Rodriguez was imprisoned in April 2018 but was discharged 11 months later, DOC records show.
• Delodge was sentenced to 171⁄2 years in federal prison: 150 months on the meth charge and 5 years on the gun charge, sentences to run consecutively.
Delodge was charged in Seminole County with passing a bogus check in 2013; she pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge and received a one-year suspended jail sentence upon paying $250 restitution.
In 2015 she pleaded guilty in Pottawatomie County to felony theft of merchandise from a retailer and received a six-year suspended sentence, which subsequently was revoked. Delodge was imprisoned from September 2016 until July 2017, and again from July 2018 to April 2019, DOC records reflect.
• Salem was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment on the federal meth count and 5 years on the gun count, sentences to run consecutively.
She also had five prior state drug convictions.
Salem pleaded guilty in January 1998 in Oklahoma County to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, possession of drug paraphernalia, and maintaining a dwelling where illegal drugs were kept. She received a five-year suspended prison sentence.
In February 1998 Salem was charged in Oklahoma County with theft of merchandise from a retailer, and pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge of petty larceny.
In September 1998 Salem was arrested in Newcastle for possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. She pleaded guilty the next month and was given a five-year prison sentence, with 30 days to serve in the McClain County jail and the balance suspended.
Her five-year suspended sentence in 1998 from Oklahoma County subsequently was revoked and she was imprisoned from January 2000 through February 2002.
Salem was charged in Oklahoma County in 2005 with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of proceeds derived from the sale of illegal drugs, and possession of marijuana.
Upon pleading guilty in July 2006, she was given a six-year prison sentence, with three years to serve and the other half suspended. DOC records show Salem was incarcerated from November 2006 through October 2007 and then was released on parole.