Sioux City Woman to Federal Prison for Meth Distribution

A woman who distributed methamphetamine after previously being convicted of a felony drug offense was sentenced July 18, 2025, to more than five years in federal prison.

Alesha Rasmussen, age 34, from Sioux City, Iowa, received the prison term after a February 10, 2025, guilty plea to distribution of methamphetamine after having been previously convicted of a felony drug offense.

At sentencing, Rasmussen admitted that on July 10, 2024, she sold approximately one ounce of methamphetamine to an individual cooperating with law enforcement in Webster County, Iowa. Rasmussen was previously convicted of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa in November of 2011. Following her term of imprisonment for the 2011 offense, she was revoked from supervised release on four occasions for violations of her conditions of release.

Rasmussen was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Leonard T. Strand. Rasmussen was sentenced to 63 months' imprisonment. She must also serve a six-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.

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

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Patrick T. Greenwood and investigated by the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement.

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

The case file number is 24-CR-03042.

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