SW MO Man Sentenced to 24 Years for Meth Conspiracy

A man from southwest Missouri has been sentenced for his role in a meth ring.

30-year-old Brent A. Tribble of Kirbyville was sentenced  to 24 years in federal prison without parole after pleading guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute meth.

According to court documents, 30-year-old Neal Norles, of Blue Springs, supplied meth to 30-year-old Stephan Samons, of Camdenton, who in turn, supplied meth to both Tribble and 31-year-old April Luke of Springfield.

Tribble was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Luke, which was stopped by a Missouri State Highway Patrol in June 2018. The trooper searched the vehicle and found a zippered bag that contained 470 grams of 98 percent pure methamphetamine. Inside a black backpack, the trooper found a Taurus 9mm semi-automatic pistol, an SCCY 9mm semi-automatic pistol, a Connecticut Valley Arms .50-caliber black-powder rifle (without a serial number, shortened and converted to use either a .410-gauge shotgun cartridge or a .44-caliber pistol cartridge), ammunition, Tribble’s debit card, and 3.5 grams of methamphetamine. Tribble admitted that the drugs and firearms were his.

During the investigation, troopers seized nearly 2.4 kilograms of meth from a Dodge Charger in which Norles was a passenger during a traffic stop on I-44 in Newton County in Jan. 2019, while Norles was returning from a trip to Los Angeles, California.

Tribble is the first defendant sentenced in this case. Co-defendants Norles, Samons, and Luke have pleaded guilty and await sentencing.