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A woman will spend more than five years in prison for her role in a conspiracy to smuggle methamphetamine from California to Down East Maine.
U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. on Wednesday handed down the sentence against 33-year-old Jenna Garniss, formerly of Ellsworth, in U.S. District Court in Bangor, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
In addition to 61 months in prison, Garniss will serve three years of supervised release once out of prison.
Between 2022 and 2023, co-conspirators Alex Hanna and Codee Houston arranged to have pounds of meth shipped to Hancock County from California. Garniss and others then distributed the drug and returned the proceeds to Hanna, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
Garniss wired some funds to Houston, the meth source in California, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Garniss pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute meth, distribution of meth and conspiracy to engage in money laundering on June 27, 2025.
Hanna was sentenced in March 2025 to more than 11 years in prison and five years of supervised release. Houston was sentenced in October 2025 to 14 years in prison and five years of supervised release.