Omaha man sentenced in federal court on drug charges

OMAHA, Neb. -- Clayton Reynolds, 39, of Omaha, was sentenced on November 25, 2025, in federal court in Omaha, for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of the drug trafficking crime. 

The announcement was made December 2 by United States Attorney Lesley A. Woods.

Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Reynolds to 214 months’ imprisonment on the drug trafficking charge and 60 months on the firearm charge, to run consecutive to each other.

There is no parole in the federal system.  After Reynolds’s release from prison, he will begin a 5-year term of supervised release.  Reynolds also admitted to the forfeiture of firearms and United States Currency that had been seized.

On April 2024, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Greater Omaha Safe Streets Task Force began investigating Reynolds for his involvement in distributing fentanyl in the Omaha area.  Over the course of three months, Reynolds sold fentanyl to a confidential informant on six separate occasions.  On one occasion, Reynolds also sold a firearm. 

 On July 22, 2024, a search warrant was executed on Reynolds’s residence and a storage unit he used.  In his residence, law enforcement found two pounds of pure methamphetamine, 296 grams of fentanyl, amphetamine, oxycodone, marijuana, crack, ecstasy, cocaine, and Xanax. 

They also found $18,062 in drug proceeds and a shotgun.  At the storage unit, an additional $14,000 in drug proceeds and a handgun were seized.

This case was investigated by Federal Bureau of Investigation and Omaha Police Department.