Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that the following Cherokee County residents, all previously convicted on federal methamphetamine conspiracy charges, were sentenced in federal court to the following terms of imprisonment:
* Zactrick Michael Jefferies, age 29, sentenced to 236 months imprisonment
* James Lasamuel Humphries, age 24, sentenced to 30 months imprisonment
* Brianna Allison Jones, age 22, sentenced to 48 months imprisonment
* Katherine Elizabeth Williams, age 28, sentenced to 70 months imprisonment
* Crystal Dawn Osborne, age 38, sentenced to 27 months imprisonment
* Andrell Lopez, age 25, sentenced to 36 months imprisonment
Senior United States District Judge Henry M. Herlong, Jr., of Greenville imposed the sentences on Oct. 10, 2017. Also charged in the conspiracy and awaiting sentencing are co-defendants Everette De’Angelo Dawkins and Richard Stewart Hawkins.
At an earlier guilty plea hearing, Assistant U. S. Attorney Jeanne Howard established that after his release from federal prison in February 2015, Everette De’Angelo Dawkins began conspiring with other codefendants to distribute up to 45 kilograms of methamphetamine in the upstate. A number of seizures of methamphetamine occurred during the time of the conspiracy including one in September, 2015, during which the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant and seized approximately 662 grams of methamphetamine from Zactrick Jefferies. Following a car stop in January 2016, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office seized 520 grams of methamphetamine from James Humphries. In December 2016, Zactrick Jefferies was arrested with another kilogram of methamphetamine. Andrell Lopez was arrested by the South Carolina Highway Patrol after a car stop where 583 grams of methamphetamine and 9 pounds of marijuana were seized.
The case was investigated by agents of the Department of Homeland Security, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, the United States Marshal’s Service Task Force, the South Carolina Highway Patrol, SLED and the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant United States Attorney Jeanne Howard of the Greenville office handled the case. ##
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
