MOBILE, AL – A Fairhope man was sentenced to 54 years (648 months) in jail for his participation in a conspiracy to own with intent to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Darrell Williams, 53, was convicted on each expenses by a federal jury in October of 2022.
The proof at trial confirmed that Williams was an area drug distributor in a company whose leaders have been distributing cocaine from suppliers in Texas and heroin from a provider in Birmingham, Alabama. The trial proof confirmed that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) obtained a court-authorized wiretap on two of the native conspirators and recognized Williams as a type of frequently receiving managed substances for distribution in Baldwin County. In the course of the investigation, brokers deciphered a coded reference to an handle in Cellular the place a two-kilogram cargo of cocaine from Texas was being delivered. Williams agreed to attend for the supply of the cocaine and transport it to Baldwin County, the place it was going to be packaged for additional distribution. The cargo was intercepted by the FBI and the medicine have been seized.
Williams and certainly one of his co-defendants, James Harding, elected to take their circumstances to a jury trial. Harding was recognized throughout the trial because the provider of the heroin distributed via the group. The proof supplied in opposition to Williams on the trial included recorded telephone conversations between him and one other conspirator which have been obtained via the court-authorized wiretap. Williams additionally offered an announcement to FBI brokers after he had been suggested of his constitutional rights. On this video- and audio-recorded assertion, he admitted his involvement within the conspiracy and within the occasions main as much as the seizure of the two-kilogram cargo of cocaine. Williams was discovered responsible on each counts by the trial jury.
United States District Courtroom Decide Terry F. Moorer, who sentenced Harding to 960 months’ imprisonment earlier this month, imposed the 648-month sentence in Williams’ case on the sentencing listening to. The sentence consisted of a 324-month time period for every rely, which have been ordered to run consecutively to one another. The decide ordered that the full time period of imprisonment, 648 months, shall be adopted by a five-year time period of supervised launch. Williams will endure testing and remedy for drug abuse. The decide additionally imposed a particular situation that the probation workplace might search Williams’ particular person or property upon a displaying of affordable suspicion that he’s in violation of any of the situations of his supervision. No advantageous was imposed however the decide ordered that Williams pay $200 in particular necessary assessments.
The FBI, the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Workplace, the Baldwin County Drug Process Pressure, the Foley Police Division, the Daphne Police Division, Gulf Shores Police Division and the Bay Minette Police Division, the Alabama Legislation Enforcement Company, and the Cellular County Sheriff’s Workplace all participated within the investigation. Assistant U.S. Lawyer Gloria Bedwell prosecuted the case on behalf of america.
