Marion, Ia (WQAD)– A former Michigan professor was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for possessing methamphetamine with the intention to sell it near a high school.
61-year-old Randall Mark Gilbert of Marion admitted to having more than 10 grams of meth within 1,000 feet of Lisbon High School in Lisbon, Iowa with the intention to sell the drug on July 31, 2019.
According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office Police found the meth in Gilbert’s house during a search. After Gilbert was arrested and released from jail, he went to a man and woman’s house where he cut the phone line.
Believing the woman set him up, Gilbert threatened her with a knife, forcing her to go back to his house with him. The man ran out of the house.
Gilbert was sentenced to serve seven years and one month in prison followed by an eight-year term of supervised release.
The Gazette originally reported Gilbert worked as a professor at Grand Valley State University in Allendale Michigan in the Seidman College of Business.
