Jackson, Miss - Latoya Renae Bonds, 30 of McComb, pled guilty on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, to possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (“crack"), announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. She will be sentenced on April 25, 2014 and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000.00 fine.
Bonds was indicted along with co-defendants Jermaine Henderson and Craig Lemark Kaho. Henderson and Kaho are charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 280 grams of cocaine base and attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine base. They are scheduled for trial on March 3, 2014 before U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves.
This case is the result of an investigation carried out by the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and the Drug Enforcement Administration with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service and Mississippi Highway Patrol. The investigation, dubbed “Operation the Night the Lights went out in PG", infiltrated an organization that was distributing cocaine base in Southwest Mississippi. Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin Chalk is prosecuting the case.
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Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys