Brandon Lee Stone Sentenced to 25 Years in Federal Prison
Abingdon, VIRGINIA - In late 2016, law enforcement agencies, led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Drug Enforcement Administration, and assisted by agencies from across southwest Virginia, charged 32 individuals with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and oxycodone.
The investigation, deemed Operation Leaving Las Vegas, accused 32 individuals of trafficking methamphetamine and oxycodone from Law Vegas into Southwest Virginia, Eastern Kentucky and elsewhere.
To date, 25 of the 32 charged have been convicted of federal drug conspiracy and money laundering charges. Nineteen of the defendants have been sentenced. The cases for the remaining defendants are working their way through the federal court system.
This week in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, five defendants were sentenced for their roles in the conspiracy, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
Brandon Lee Stone, 33, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison; Bradley Lee Chapman, 28, was sentenced to 135 months; Alex Michael Kayian, 23, was sentenced to 72 months; Kaitlynn Elizabeth Chapman was sentenced to 72 months, and Ralph Stewart Dingus, 27, was sentenced to 37 months.
Defendants previously sentenced for their roles in the conspiracy include John Dewayne Farmer, 240 months; Lola Virginia Farmer, 87 months; Shauna Nicole Chafin, 97 months; William Wesley Fleenor, 79 months; Jeffrey Nathaniel Gobble, 46 months, Preston Kyle Lawson, 46 months; Gary Ginn, 151 months; Daniel Corey Cantrell, 37 months; Tanner Morris Curd, 84 months; Amy Lorene Moser, 100 months; Steven Salyer, 87 months; Brandon Cody Trivett, 30 months; Lamar Skipper, four years’ probation; and Gary Brandon Childress, three years’ probation.
The investigation of the case was conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations, United States Marshals Service, Virginia State Police, Washington County, Virginia Sheriff’s Office, Abingdon Police Department, Marion Police Department, and Smyth County, Virginia Sheriff’s Office. Assistant United States Attorney Zachary T. Lee is prosecuting the case for the United States.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
