A Chicago resident was sentenced to serve 85 months in prison for distribution of heroin and conspiracy to distribute heroin in the St. Louis metropolitan area, announced United States Attorney Donald S. Boyce for the Southern District of Illinois.
According to documents filed with the Court, Lacy Edward Snead, 53, was charged in a superseding indictment on Dec. 16, 2015, along with two co-defendants: Alfred Reeves, Jr., 43, of O’Fallon, Ill., and Ciera McNeal, 29 of East St. Louis, Ill. Snead was charged with distributing heroin on March 5, 2013, and with participating in an ongoing conspiracy to distribute heroin over a three-year period of time.
Snead and Reeves, sold heroin to a confidential informant on March 5, 2013, and continued to be involved in heroin distribution thereafter. On June 18, 2015, Snead traveled from Chicago with Reeves and McNeil, transporting approximately 150 grams of heroin that was intended to be distributed in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Snead pleaded guilty in September of 2016. He was sentenced on Friday, April 21, 2017.
Both of Snead’s co-defendants, McNeil and Reeves, were sentenced in October of 2016. McNeil was sentenced to serve 30 months in prison, and Reeves was sentenced to serve 67 months in prison.
The investigation was conducted by agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Madison County Sheriff’s Department. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
