United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Court Senior Judge Callie V. S. Granade sentenced Anthony Lee Mitchell on Oct. 22, 2018 to serve a term of imprisonment of 95 months followed by 5 years of supervised release for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine in violation of Title 21 USC § 841(a)(1). The defendant previously pled guilty to the offense on July 23, 2018.
According to admissions the defendant made as part of his guilty plea, on May 9, 2017, Mobile Police Department officers received a complaint of a man breaking into a house. Officers responded to the location and they stopped Mitchell in a vehicle leaving the house. Mitchell gave a false name to officers by providing his brother’s name, who had active arrest warrants. Officers arrested Mitchell and received consent to search his vehicle. Officers found approximately 48 grams of methamphetamine in the vehicle. Mitchell was read his rights and he admitted that another man “fronted" him the methamphetamine and that he still owed over $1,200 to the man that fronted him the methamphetamine. Fronting drugs means the supplier provides the drugs to the buyer essentially on credit. The buyer then sells the drugs to generate the money to pay the supplier and also to make some profit.
The case was investigated by Mobile Police Department and referred for federal prosecution through the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations. The case was prosecuted by Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Lead Attorney, George F. May for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
