Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced that Jacques Andre Jackson and Willie Joseph Roberts, of Chester, South Carolina, pled guilty in federal court to federal drug charges associated with their participation in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. United States District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis, of Columbia, accepted the guilty pleas and will impose sentence after she has reviewed the presentence report, which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
Evidence presented in court during the guilty plea hearing established that, between April 2015 and March 2016, law enforcement utilized confidential sources to purchase quantities of crack cocaine from both Jackson and Roberts. There convictions were the product of a joint investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Chester County Sheriff’s Office, and the Chester Police Department. The investigation focused on significant drug dealers and violent gang members in and around Chester County and resulted in federal charges against eight defendants.
Jackson and Roberts each face a maximum of twenty years imprisonment, a fine of $1,000,000, and at least three years of supervised release on the drug charges.
Assistant United States Attorney Ben Garner of the Columbia office handled the case. ##
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
