Alabama Cocaine Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Glennie Antonio McGee and Echandza Dianca Maxie </h2> <center>
Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with conspiracy to commit fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and aggravated identity theft. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Glennie Antonio McGee, 42, Echandza Dianca Maxie, 43, and several coconspirators were memb... More...
$ (08-07-2026 - AL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Erinas Sasha Parker </h2> </center>
Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Erina Sasha Parker, 39, pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute bulk cocaine. Specifically, Parker admitted that in April and May 2024, she worked as a bulk cocaine courier for a massive drug-trafficking organization (“DTO”) in Mobile ... More...
$ (05-01-2026 - AL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Larry Jerome Hunter </h2> <center>
Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Larry Jerome Hunter, 43, took part in a vast drug-trafficking organization (“DTO”) led by Braxton A. Thomas that distributed bulk methamphetamine and cocaine between October 2021 and May 20... More...
$ (04-10-2026 - AL)United States of America v. Cornelius Jermine Vincent
Anniston, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of mixture containing methamphetamine and a machine gun. On January 10, 2021, a Heflin Police Officer was monitoring traffic on Interstate 20 in Heflin, Alabama. The officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle for failure to maintain a single lane. On January 10, 2021, a Heflin Police Officer was mon... More...
$ (02-27-2026 - Al)United States of America v. Ruben Wilson Mero-Vera
Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine on board a vessel.... More...
$ (02-11-2026 - AL)United States of America v. Wilson Robert Mero-Castro, Ruben Wilson Mero-Vera and Gabriel Cruz-Joya
Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine on board a vessel An individual may not knowingly or intentionally manufacture or distribute, or possess with intent to manufacture or distribute a controlled substance on board a vessel of the United States or a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; 46:70506(b) C... More...
$ (01-30-2026 - AL)<H2> United States of America v. Braxton A. Thomas,
Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug-trafficking organization responsible for distributing hundreds of pounds of cocaine and pure methamphetamine. Braxton A. Thomas, 38, led an extensive drug-trafficking organization (“DTO”) from 2021 to 2024. Thomas’s DTO distributed various drugs, including cocaine and pure methamphetamine, in the Mobile ... More...
$ (01-16-2026 - AL)<H2> United States of America v. Nicholas Ferlando Haynie
Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute Cocaine and Heroin. Following a trial in September 2025, a federal jury convicted an Arkansas man of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Nicholas Ferlando Haynie, 45, of Camden, Arkansas, was a member of a dru... More...
$ (12-29-2025 - AL)<H2> United States of America v. Arsenio Hall
Montgomery, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, a synthetic cannabinoid, and marijuana. Law enforcement began investigating suspected drug-trafficking activity in Montgomery County in late 2024. As part of that investigation, investigators with th... More...
$ (11-22-2025 - AL)United States of America v. Preston Buie
Mobile, Alabama, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.<br> <br> Preston Buie was pulled over for following too closely behind a semi-truck. Within minutes, the officer who stopped him <br> became suspicious that something criminal was afoot—he had US... More...
$0 (10-20-2025 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Victor Alfonso Contreras-Gonzalez, Arturo Ayala-Aviles, Arturo Ayala-Aviles, Marco Antonio Sanchez-Avila </h1></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Huntsville, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegally reentering the United States after having previously been deported, being a felon in possession of a firearm and an alien in possession of a firearm. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> <br> Four Defendants Charged with Federal Immigra... More...
$0 (09-11-2025 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Jeffrey Monkentee Hill; Carstavious Shadon Stovall </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Montgomery, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Federal Gun and Drug Convictions </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two Men Sentenced Following Federal Gun and Drug Convictions Stemming from Conduct in Tallapoosa County</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Two Opelika, A... More...
$0 (10-29-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Jeffrey Monkentee Hill; Carstavious Shadon Stovall </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Opelika, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Federal Gun and Drug Convictions Stemming from Conduct in Tallapoosa County </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Two Men Sentenced Following Federal Gun and Drug Convictions Stemming from Conduct in Tallapoosa County</h2></center></b></b> </h... More...
$0 (10-29-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Derrick Andrea White </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Montgomery, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana with intent to distribute </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Elmore County Man Sentenced to 165 Months in Prison Following Federal Drug Conviction</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Act... More...
$0 (10-11-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Michael Anthony Woods II </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Cocaine Trafficking </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Court Sentences Brewton Man to 60 Months Imprisonment for Cocaine Trafficking</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> On May 1, 2023, officers with the Brewton Police Departm... More...
$0 (08-05-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Otis Sanders, Jr.; Richard Dewise; Jeffery Ryan Clark; Maurice Marcell Carter</h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> <br> Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with federal drug conspiracy </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Federal Drug Conspirators Sentenced</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Four members of a federal drug conspiracy were sentenced on July 19 in federal court. Ot... More...
$0 (07-23-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Morris Alan Morgan </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Drug Courier Sentenced In Federal Court</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A Lexington, Mississippi, man was sentenced on July 18, 20... More...
$0 (07-23-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Allen H. Davis, also known as “Big Homie†</h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> brimingham, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug and Gun Charges </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Convicted Felon Sentenced to Eleven Years in Prison on Drug and Gun Charges</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> A federal judge sentenced a convicted felon on drug a... More...
$0 (07-15-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Preston Buie </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possessing with Intent to Distribute Cocaine and Illegally Possessing Firearm </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> North Carolina Man Sentenced to 240 months for Possessing with Intent to Distribute Cocaine and Illegally Possessing Firearm</h2... More...
$0 (06-07-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Otis Lee Bowers </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Birmingham, Alabama criminal defense lawyer <a href="http://www.morelaw.com/lawyers/atty.asp?f=Leroy&l=Maxwell,%20Jr.&i=121852&z=32203" target="_new">Leroy Mawaell</a> represented the Defendant charged with Wide-Ranging, Prison-Based Conspiracy </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Member of the Gangster Disciples Sentenc... More...
$0 (04-04-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Darnell Watkins </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a Drug Conspiracy.</font </color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center></i></b> Pinson Man Sentenced for Drug Conspiracy </h2></center><br> <br> A Pinson, Alabama man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and crack... More...
$0 (04-22-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. David Bailey </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon. .</font <br> </color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center></i></b> <br> <br> Mobile Man Sentenced to 120 Months in Prison for Illegally Possessing a Firearm as well as powder cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, an ecstasy ... More...
$0 (04-19-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Edward Duran McGee </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Conspiring to Distribute Cocaine and Possession of a Firearm.</font color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><br> <b><h2><center><i></b> Mobile Man Sentenced to 300 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute Cocaine and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime ... More...
$0 (03-27-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Otis Bowers </h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center><i> Birmingham, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Wide-Ranging, Prison-Based Conspiracy.</font color="red"></b></h2></center></i></i><b><h2><center><i></b> Member of the Gangster Disciples Sentenced to 235 Months in Prison for Role in Wide-Ranging, Prison-Based Conspiracy </h2></center></i></font color="red"><br> <br> Otis Bow... More...
$0 (04-04-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Jimmy Lee Spencer </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Birmingham, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <b><h3><center><i></b<br> Tuscaloosa Man Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison on Drug Charge </h3></center></i> A Tuscaloosa man was sentenced on a drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. ... More...
$0 (02-24-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Jimmy Lee Spencer </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Tuscaloosa, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with a Drug Charge.</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <br> A Tuscaloosa man was sentenced on a drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.<br> <br> U.S. District ... More...
$0 (01-24-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Lonnie Dean Hewlett </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Huntsville, Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and possessing firearms in furtherance of drug-trafficking crimes.</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <br> <br> Lonnie Dean Hewlett, 30, of Huntsville, was sentenced to 145 months in prison. Hewlett pleaded guilty in July 20... More...
$0 (01-12-2024 - AL)<h1> United States of America v. Kawasi Wilson </h1>
<b><h2><center><font color="red"><i> Montgomery, Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony gun and drug possession.</b></h2></center></i></font color="red"></i><br> <br> A Millbrook, Alabama man who had previously been convicted of federal gun and drug offenses. <br> <br> Wilson's August 2023 trial, law enforcement executed a search warrant at Wilson's house o... More...
$0 (12-11-2023 - AL)United States of America v. Kawasi Wilson
Montgomery, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with federal gun and drug offenses.<br> <br> Law enforcement executed a search warrant at Kawasi Wilson's house on August 10, 2022. During the search, agents found over 1,000 grams of cocaine and 2 firearms, along with over $20,000 in cash. Wilson, age 45, had previously been convicted of felony offenses, including a fed... More...
$0 (12-11-2023 - AL)United States of America v. Cleo Clemons
Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. The sentences will run concurrently. Clemons entered a guilty plea to these offenses on April 27, 2023. <br> <br> On January 10, 2021, officers initiated a traffic stop on a black Cadillac Escalade. The vehicle appeared to be racing another vehicle and was traveling at ... More...
$0 (08-29-2023 - AL)United States of America v. Christian Leontine Glover
Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with drug trafficking.<br> <br> Christian Leontine Glover, 34, was a money courier for Southall, a drug distribution organization, operated by Darrin J. Southall. Defendant pled guilty to conspiracy possess with intent to distribute cocaine.<br> <br> Court documents reflect that Glover used her cell phone to keep up with Southal... More...
$0 (08-10-2023 - Al)United States of America v. Patrick Maurio Bass
Montgomery, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm and drugs.<br> <br> On August 14, 2020, the Montgomery Police Department (MPD) received information that Patrick Maurio Bass, age 43, had a large quantity of illegal drugs in his possession. Later that day, MPD officers observed Bass at a Montgomery gas station, parked in a sport utility v... More...
$0 (04-27-2023 - AL)United States of America v. Michael Jerome Files
Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with selling controlled drugs.<br> <br> Federal law makes it illegal to sell a "controlled substance†without authorization. 21 U.S.C. § 841(a). The baseline penalties for violations are set forth in § 841(b)(1)(C). Larger quantities of drugs authorize (and sometimes require) higher penalties. Id. § 841(b)(1)(A), ... More...
$0 (03-24-2023 - AL)United States of America v. Darrell Williams
Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. <br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <P><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Mobile_AL.jpg" alt="Federal Courthouse - Mobile, Alabama"><br> <P><br> Federal Courthouse - Mobil... More...
$0 (02-24-2023 - AL)United States of America v. Jaminson Valencia Moreno
Mobile, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with smuggling 1,315 kilograms of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <a font="red" href="https://www.morelaw.com/alabama/news/mobile/" target="_new">MoreLaw Legal News For Mobile</a><br> </font><br> </center><br> </h1><br> </table><br> </center><br> On January 11, 2022, while on routine p... More...
$0 (01-09-2023 - AL)United States of America v. Broderick J. Carson
Mobile, Alabama criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute meth.<br> <br> Broderick J. Carson, 40, was arrested by narcotics detectives in January 2021, following the execution of search warrants at his home and a storefront that he maintained in Mobile. Detectives obtained the search warrants after conducting several controlled purchases... More...
$0 (11-28-2022 - AL)United States of America v. Lashana Nakiah Foreman
Montgomery, Alabama criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Foreman's conviction is a part of a larger drug conspiracy including seven other co-defendants and spanning multiple Alabama counties, including Covington and Crenshaw.<br> <br> During the two-day trial, federal prosecutors presented evidence of a March 2019 phone ... More...
$0 (10-20-2022 - AL)United States of America v. Vincent Vo Tran
Mobile, Alabama criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute it.<br> <br> Vincent Vo Tran, 26, was arrested in May 2021 after one of his coconspirators led sheriff's deputies on a high-speed chase that ended at Tran's trailer in Irvington. During a search of the trailer, deputies recovered, ... More...
$0 (10-19-2022 - AL)United States of America v. Dedrick Dawon McDowell
Birmingham, Alabama criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.<br> <br> Dedrick Dawon McDowell, age 24, of Shreveport, Louisiana, <br> <br> on November 18, 2020, Northport Police officers responded to a 911 call at mobile home park on Hunter Creek Road in Northport, Alabama. An agent with the West Alabama Narcotics Task Force heard the police radio traf... More...
$0 (09-28-2022 - AL)United States of America v. Rolando Antuain Williamson
Birmingham, Alabama criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with continuing criminal enterprise; conspiring to distribute or possess with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana; distributing or possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana; using, carrying, or possessing a firearm during or in furtheranc... More...
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