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<\/p>\nMemphis, TN \u2013 Ten defendants in a multi-state narcotics trafficking conspiracy have been collectively sentenced to more than 590 months in federal prison. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentences today.<\/p>\n
According to information presented in court, between August 2014 and June 2015, the defendants conspired with each other to distribute large quantities of oxycodone, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana. They utilized the United States Postal Service (USPS) to ship the drugs from Arizona and California to Memphis for distribution. <\/p>\n
The defendants and their respective sentences:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Eddie Caswell aka “Geezy”, 35, of Memphis, Tennessee: 200 months<\/p>\n
\u2022 Armando Penunuri aka “Migo,” 29, of Los Angeles, California: 120 months<\/p>\n
\u2022 Taderrio Johnson aka “Pee-Wee”, 29, of Los Angeles, California: 57 months<\/p>\n
\u2022 Marcus Moore aka “Corry Moore,” 33, of Memphis, Tennessee: 18 months<\/p>\n
\u2022 Martavious Taylor aka “Snap,” 32, of Memphis, Tennessee: 60 months<\/p>\n
\u2022 Tavious Jones aka “Threat” and “No Face, No Case,” 23, of Memphis, Tennessee: 57 months<\/p>\n
\u2022 Brandon Heard, 27, of Memphis, Tennessee: 12 months<\/p>\n
\u2022 Taquita James, 33, of Memphis, Tennessee: time served<\/p>\n
\u2022 Brittany Junious aka “Brittany Caswell,” 23, of Memphis, Tennessee: 12 months<\/p>\n
\u2022 Frederick Burton, 52, of Memphis, Tennessee: 60 months<\/p>\n
Law enforcement\u2019s investigation into the criminal organization revealed Caswell was the drug trafficking organization\u2019s leader. He recruited family members for his illicit enterprise, including his wife (James) and nephew (Heard).<\/p>\n
Initially, Caswell shipped marijuana from Arizona to Memphis. He then expanded his operation after teaming up with Penunuri and Johnson, who served as sources of supply of methamphetamine and prescription pills in California. In February 2015, agents intercepted a package containing more than four kilograms of meth, which Caswell had shipped from California to Memphis.<\/p>\n
Over the course of the conspiracy, one of the defendants, Burton, worked as a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier<\/strong>. In collaboration with Caswell, Burton arranged to have express mail packages containing drugs mailed to addresses on his mail route. In exchange for cash, Burton would divert those packages to members of the drug trafficking organization. Law enforcement investigators captured surveillance on over two dozen instances which showed Burton diverting packages to persons off of his assigned postal route. A conservative estimate revealed that Burton distributed over 800 kilograms of marijuana and oxycodone.<\/p>\n In May 2015, all of the defendants were indicted on a multi-count indictment, which charged them with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute multiple narcotics.<\/p>\n All 10 defendants pleaded guilty to charges within the indictment in February 2016.<\/p>\n In May 2016, they all were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman to federal imprisonment, excluding Taquita James, who received time served.<\/p>\n This case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), U.S. Postal Inspector, and the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General.<\/p>\n Assistant U.S. Attorney Reagan M. Taylor prosecuted this case on the government\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Memphis, TN \u2013 Ten defendants in a multi-state narcotics trafficking conspiracy have been collectively sentenced to more than 590 months in federal prison. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentences today. According to information presented in court, between August 2014 and June 2015, the defendants conspired with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15211,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210\/revisions\/15211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}