https://www.kotatv.com/2025/07/21/belle-fourche-man-sentenced-more-than-12-years-prison-drug-related-money-laundering-operation/

A man from Belle Fourche has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months in federal prison for a drug-related money laundering scheme.

Federal prosecutors say Turner Heinbaugh worked with others to take money from drug sales and then send the money through electronic payments to other co-conspirators in the United States and Mexico.

The money was generated through a meth operation in the Black Hills. All in all, investigators say Heinbaugh was responsible for transferring approximately $98,000 in drug money. Prosecutors say he also sold meth.

Heinbaugh pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering last year.