Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Joshua Mullis, age 39, of Macon, was sentenced to serve twenty (20) years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The sentence was handed down on Monday, December 4, 2017, by the Honorable Leslie J. Abrams, United States District Judge in Macon.
There is no parole in the federal system.
Mr. Mullis entered a plea of guilty on May 25, 2017, and admitted to conspiring with others to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine during the period from June, 2014 through May, 2016. According to the plea agreement, law enforcement began receiving information in January, 2015 that Mr. Mullis and his brother, Jeremy Mullis, were obtaining methamphetamine from a group in East Point, Georgia.
Mr. Mullis was introduced to his East Point suppliers following a prior incarceration and began obtaining methamphetamine from them around August 2014. Mr. Mullis, or someone on his or his brother’s behalf, thereafter made frequent trips to East Point, Georgia to meet with the East Point source to obtain methamphetamine. Mr. Mullis and his brother obtained varying quantities of methamphetamine ranging from one-quarter pound to one pound at a time. The methamphetamine would then be brought back to the Middle District of Georgia for distribution.
Of the thirteen defendants charged in this conspiracy, in addition to Mr. Mullis, eight defendants have been convicted to date, seven of whom have received sentences of up to 144 months, based upon their prior convictions and varying levels of involvement in the drug distribution ring. Sentencing for the eighth co-defendant is scheduled for January. Charges are still pending against the four defendants, some of whom are at large.
“Methamphetamine is one of the most common drugs of abuse in the Middle District of Georgia and one that has terrible effects on its users. Once again the great cooperation between the federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in Middle Georgia has resulted in shutting down a major organization distributing this poison in our community," said United States Attorney Peeler.
The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration and Georgia Bureau of Investigation with the assistance of Peach County Sheriff’s Office, Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, and other local law enforcement agencies. Assistant United States Attorney Beth Howard prosecuted the case for the United States.
Questions concerning this case should be directed to Pamela Lightsey, United States Attorney’s Office, at (478) 621-2603.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
