NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that EUGENE MCGEE, age 28, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty for his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in the New Orleans metropolitan area.
According to court documents, on January 9, 2019, MCGEE pled guilty to Count One of the Indictment, which charged him and two other individuals with conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin. The defendants were members of a drug conspiracy that distributed heroin throughout the New Orleans metropolitan area beginning from on or about June 2015 through June 2017. The investigation into this trafficking organization included multiple court-authorized wiretaps by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) group, including taps of cell phones used by Akeem Fleming to communicate with customers and other co-conspirators.
U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman sentenced MCGEE to 100 months imprisonment on the heroin distribution charge, to be followed by a 4-year term of supervised release. MCGEE was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,434.49 to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office for damages caused to law enforcement vehicles when he attempted to evade arrest on Oct. 26, 2016.
On April 3, 2019, Judge Feldman sentenced MCGEE’s co-defendants, Akeem Fleming and Terrance Milton, to 131 and 60 months imprisonment, respectively.
U.S. Attorney Strasser praised the work of the HIDTA Task Force Group of the Drug Enforcement Administration in investigating this matter. Assistance was also provided by Narcotics Group IV at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, Gretna Major Crimes Task Force, and Louisiana State Police. Assistant United States Attorneys Shirin Hakimzadeh and André Jones were in charge of the prosecution.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
