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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Tina Tafoya of Clovis pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy. She and three other defendants entered a guilty plea in the case.
Under the terms of her plea agreement, Tafoya will be sentenced to 78 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico Damon P. Martinez.
According to the release, Tafoya admitted to conspiring with Christopher Jason Kidd and John Jesse Perez of Clovis, and Jeanette Driever of Grady, to distribute methamphetamine in Curry County between September and November 2013.
According to Kidd’s plea agreement, Kidd and Tafoya supplied a pound of methamphetamine to Driever and Perez to distribute to other users on Nov. 9, 2013, and possessed another half-pound of methamphetamine at their residence.
Under the terms of their respective plea agreements, Kidd will serve 78 months, Driever will serve 60 months and Perez will serve 36 months all with a five-year term of supervised release after completing their prison sentence.
Sentencing hearings have not been scheduled, according to the release.
