The sentence for a Fort Dodge man charged in Carroll County District Court with drug trafficking was handed down Monday. Thirty-year-old Shawn Matthew Newman was charged with possession of methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana with intent to deliver, class C and D felonies, after a March 7 traffic stop by the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office located a large sum of cash, individually labeled baggies, unused syringes, a scale and narcotics in his car. Newman pled guilty to all three counts and was sentenced to 10 years in prison on each class C count and five years in prison on the class D charge. However, the sentences were suspended, and Newman was instead placed on probation for up to five years to the Iowa Department of Corrections. Over $3,000 in fines and surcharges were also suspended. The Carroll County sentences will run concurrently but consecutively to a two-year sentence handed down in Webster County for felony drug possession if ever served. One of the conditions of Newman’s probation is that he must stay at a residential correctional facility and will remain in custody at the Carroll County jail until a bed is available.
