Brothers convicted in their mother's 2010 murder plead guilty to drug trafficking
Two Minnesota brothers who were convicted in their mother's 2010 murder have now pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for Minnesota said 38-year-old Dillon Peter-Cody Clemens and 30-year-old Jacob Seth Cobb – both of Brooklyn Park – had already been indicted each on one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
Clemens pleaded guilty on Jan. 27 to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and Cobb did the same on Jan. 21.
Federal prosecutors say the two were stopped by a Minnesota State Trooper on June 22, 2024 in Royalton. The trooper identified multiple signs of drug activity in the car, which included a "screwdriver, flashlight, black electric tape, loose panels and molding around the radio and center console," according to court documents.
Both Clemens and Cobb had revoked licenses at the time. They claimed to the trooper they were on their way to buy a motorcycle in Motley, but failed to provide the name or street address of the alleged seller.
After the trooper had a K9 search the vehicle, a pound of methamphetamine was found on the driver's side door seam, charges say.
Sentencing hearings will be scheduled for a later date regarding the case.
The two had previously been convicted of their mother's murder over a decade ago, along with another brother, Andrew Quinton Cobb.
Tamara Lee Mason, 50, of Alberta, Minnesota, was reported missing on Dec. 27, 2010 before she was eventually found buried in her own backyard in July 2011, according to Stevens County District Court records.
The Duluth News Tribune reported that the two brothers got into an argument with their mother "because they didn't want to play Yahtzee with her." The brothers claimed at the time of her disappearance to authorities that because they wouldn't play the game with her, she grabbed some items, left the home and never returned.
Clemens later told investigators that Cobb had strangled Mason while his brother Andrew put a plastic bag over her head. An autopsy later revealed that Mason's cause of death was "asphyxiation due to neck compression resulting in a fractured larynx," according to multiple reports.
Jacob Cobb was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to 2nd-degree murder while committing 3rd-degree assault. Clemens was sentenced to nearly eight years after pleading guilty to being an accessory after the fact to Mason's murder.
Andrew Cobb was sentenced to just short of two years after he also pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact.
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