A Madras man who is the son of a well-known career criminal and drug dealer was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy, meth distribution and bank robbery.

Tyler Wayne Fuller, 30, was convicted for his involvement in distributing meth in central Oregon, and for robbing a Madras bank in August 2017.

Fuller is the son of known drug dealer and career criminal Ronald Wayne Thrasher. According to court documents, Fuller has spent the majority of his adult life incarcerated. In December of 2016, Fuller was released from federal prison, and Thrasher started supplying his son with quarter- and half-pound quantities of methamphetamine to distribute throughout central Oregon.

Both men have extensive criminal histories. Thrasher has several burglary, felon in possession of a firearm and drug possession charges. However, many of those charges have been dismissed. Fuller has convictions for forgery, several assault and strangulation charges, and several of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer.

According to court records, Fuller and Thrasher have a volatile relationship that came to a head in February 2017. Fuller confronted his father with a pistol and tried to rob him of his methamphetamine supply.

The two became estranged and Fuller, without a supplier and income, became homeless and continued selling drugs he got from Thrasher’s customers. In August 2017, he robbed a U.S. bank in Madras of $517 in cash.

A federal judge ordered Fuller to repay that amount in restitution to U.S. Bank and forfeit any property or money earned from drug trafficking. In April of 2018, Fuller pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to distribute and possess methamphetamine and bank robbery.

Thrasher will be sentenced Feb. 4. He was convicted at trial last month for buying and transporting methamphetamine and for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Fuller was the first of 11 defendants to be sentenced for being involved in his father’s drug trafficking conspiracy.

—Jayati Ramakrishnan; 503-221-4320; jramakrishnan@oregonian.com; @JramakrishnanOR

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