MANDERSON, S.D. (KELO) — A major meth conspiracy involving multiple states has been busted.
Anthony Tibbitts, age 40, was sentenced on August 2 to five years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release following conviction of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
Tibbits was indicted by a federal grand jury in the summer of 2023 and pleaded guilty on April 19, 2024.
Tibbitts’ conviction stemmed from his involvement in a large-scale methamphetamine distribution operation in Rapid City and the Pine Ridge Reservation.
During this conspiracy, Richard Glover and his significant other, Teresa Goodroad, were the source of supply for Mark Bond and Todd Pape in South Dakota.
Bond and Pape would make trips to Colorado to pick up pounds of methamphetamine from Goodroad and Glover. Other times Goodroad and Glover would deliver the drugs to Bond and Pape in South Dakota. Once the drugs were in South Dakota they would be brought to various homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation, including Tibbitts’, where they would be further distributed by multiple individuals, including Tibbitts, Marlena Pond, Chris Janis, Tessie LaForge, Tyler LaForge, and others.
By the time the meth ring was busted, between 15 and 45 kilograms of methamphetamine was distributed during the course of this criminal enterprise.
Glover, Goodroad, Bond, Pape, Pond, Janis, and Tessie LaForge were sentenced earlier this
summer. Glover received a sentence of 17 years and six months in prison; Goodroad received a
sentence of 17 years and six months in prison; Bond received a sentence of 26 years and eight
months in prison; Pape received a sentence of 25 years in prison; Pond received a sentence of six
years in prison; Janis received a sentence of six years in prison; and Tessie LaForge received a
sentence of two years and six months in prison. Tyler LaForge is set for sentencing later this
summer.
