Larry Beville, Methamphetamine Trafficking, Indiana 2022

Larry Beville, a 61-year-old man from Louisville, Kentucky, has been sentenced to 160 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine in Indiana. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Richard L. Young, who also ordered that Beville be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for 5 years following his release from federal prison.

According to court documents, on August 24, 2022, members of the Evansville-Vanderburgh County Drug Task Force and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) stopped Beville near the 8000 block of Eagle Crest Boulevard after observing a violation of traffic laws. Upon approaching the car, a detective saw drug paraphernalia and smelled burnt marijuana. Officers obtained a warrant to search the vehicle, and recovered marijuana, a glass smoking pipe with apparent drug residue, and a plastic container that held a gallon-sized Ziploc bag full of over 1 kilogram of crystal methamphetamine.

When questioned by detectives, Beville initially stated that he did not know anything about the bag full of methamphetamine, but then changed his statement to acknowledge that there was a “kilo of methamphetamine” in the bag. Beville stated that he was delivering the methamphetamine to Evansville from Kentucky for distribution.

The investigation was led by the Evansville Police Department and the DEA. United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, Zachary A. Myers, praised the efforts of his team and the law enforcement agencies involved in the case. “The serious federal sentence imposed today should be a warning to all who intend to traffic dangerous drugs into our communities—you are not welcome in the Southern District of Indiana,” said Myers.

Assistant United States Attorney Kristian Mukoski prosecuted the case. The sentence was the result of an ongoing investigation into the distribution of methamphetamine in the Evansville area.

Beville’s sentence serves as a reminder of the serious consequences of trafficking dangerous drugs in our communities. The Evansville Police Department and the DEA will continue to work together to get deadly drugs and drug traffickers off our streets and out of our neighborhoods.

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