Dubuque Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Federal Prison

A man who distributed over seven pounds of methamphetamine was sentenced on March 17, 2026, to a decade in federal prison.

Michael Scott Boen, II, age 33, from Dubuque, Iowa, received the prison term after a July 23, 2025, guilty plea to distribution of a controlled substance following a conviction for a serious drug felony.

Evidence at sentencing showed that between September 2024 and January 2025, Boen sold more than seven pounds of methamphetamine. In October 2024, law enforcement officers stopped Boen in Dubuque, Iowa, and seized 12 grams of methamphetamine from his car. Two weeks later, Boen attempted to sell a stolen gun to a drug dealer in exchange for more methamphetamine. Officers searched his house in January 2025 and located additional methamphetamine.

Boen was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams. Boen was sentenced to 120 months' imprisonment and must also serve an eight-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.

Boen is being held in the United States Marshal's custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Devra T. Hake and former Special Assistant United States Attorney Jared Manternach and was investigated by the Dubuque Police Department, the Dubuque County Sheriff's Office, the Dubuque Drug Task Force, and the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement.

Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.
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