On Thursday, Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Phillip D. Goetz, 45, of Grand Island, Nebraska, for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
Goetz will be serving 70 months’ imprisonment. After release he will begin a three- year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
On May 12, 2021, Omaha Police received a tip that Goetz was meeting up with co-defendant Markisha Hill to purchase methamphetamine near 72nd and Grover Streets in Omaha.
Detectives surveilled and observed Goetz approach and enter a vehicle driven by Hill.
The vehicle stopped at different locations until Goetz exited Hill’s vehicle and entered a beige Jeep Grand Cherokee. Which left and promptly returned with Goetz exiting the Jeep and returning to Hill’s.
Officers followed Hill’s vehicle, observed a traffic infraction, and stopped the vehicle on I-80 near the 60th Street exit in Omaha.
Officers observed Goetz attempting to conceal something.
After consent to search the SUV by Hill was denied, officers deployed a trained drug sniffing dog.
The dog alerted on the SUV. Officers searched and located one pound of methamphetamine in the SUV’s center console.
Co-defendant Markisha Hill has pleaded guilty to possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and will be sentenced on December 9, 2022.
This case was investigated by the Omaha Police Department.