United States of America v. Michael Osborn Thomas

Grand Rapids, Michigan, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute

methamphetamine.



In 2017, Thomas pled guilty to several state charges, including the delivery of cocaine

and methamphetamine, and was sentenced to prison. In late 2019, he was released on parole.

Within a few weeks of his release, he had returned to drug trafficking. In June 2022—while

investigating a complaint that Thomas had assaulted his wife—police discovered

methamphetamine and drug-trafficking paraphernalia in Thomas's house. Thomas was arrested

and later charged with various drug offenses. About a year later, Thomas—who was not in

custody, but was under police surveillance—dispatched his sister to drive his car to a supplier in

Detroit and pick up several kilograms of methamphetamine. On her way back, a Michigan state

trooper stopped the car, found the drugs, and arrested her. A federal grand jury thereafter

indicted Thomas and his sister for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine,

among other charges. Thomas's sister pled guilty to the conspiracy charge, and Thomas—on the

morning his trial was scheduled to begin—agreed to do so as well.

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The Defendant was found guilty and was sentenced to 300 months in prison.