GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today the final sentences have been imposed in the prosecution of a 24-member drug trafficking operation. Darrell Lee-Lamont Summers II, Daryl Kevin Cannon, Timothy Roy Mason, and Tremain Lamar Braxton were sentenced this week following their convictions for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and related crimes after a ten-day trial in November before the Honorable Robert J. Jonker, Chief United States District Judge. The remaining 20 defendants were sentenced between May 2019 and February 2020 for crimes committed as a part of the conspiracy.
The evidence at trial demonstrated that the leaders of the conspiracy, including Summers, Cannon, Raymond Demetrius Stovall, and Richard Lee James, Jr., brought or sent, in total, hundreds of thousands of dollars to suppliers in California and Arizona, including Kentrell Terome Dunn, who subsequently shipped hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine back to Michigan through the mail to them and others in the organization. The cash deliveries and shipments took place between 2016 and 2018. The organization largely distributed the methamphetamine in southwest Michigan, including in greater Kalamazoo. Law enforcement intercepted three packages during the investigation, which in total contained approximately 14 pounds of crystal methamphetamine, between 96% and 99% pure. At the time of the interceptions, those 14 pounds alone were worth more than $40,000 on the southwest border from which they shipped and nearly $100,000 wholesale in Michigan.
The Court imposed the following sentences on the conspirators:
Defendant
Age
City
Sentence
David Richard Uminn
36
Kalamazoo
262 months
Darrell Lee-Lamont Summers II
29
Benton Harbor
240 months
Daryl Kevin Cannon
27
Benton Harbor
240 months
Raymond Demetrius Stovall
30
Benton Harbor
225 months
Kentrell Terome Dunn
34
Phoenix, Arizona
210 months
Richard Lee James, Jr.
28
Benton Harbor
210 months
Robert Bruce Armstrong
66
Kalamazoo
180 months
Timothy Roy Mason
40
Benton Harbor and Erie, Pennsylvania
180 months
Tremain Lamar Braxton
31
Benton Harbor
180 months
Scotty Deandre-Marcus Campbell
27
Benton Harbor
168 month
Michael John Marcon
33
Kalamazoo
156 months
Andrew Peter Bagley
31
Kalamazoo
156 months
Eshawn Jamier Whiteside
22
Kalamazoo
145 months
Ronald Eugene Goodloe, Jr.
31
Benton Harbor
130 months
Robert Duane Kniss
46
Kalamazoo
120 months
Gerry Lionel Winston, Jr.
36
Kalamazoo
120 months
Aaron Earl Rimpson
29
Kalamazoo
120 months
Ronnie Deval Smith, Jr.
26
Kalamazoo
120 months
Kandy Kay Kirby
48
Kalamazoo
90 months
Richard Farmer, Sr.
45
Atlanta, Georgia
60 months
DeMichael Mishaun Horn
20
Benton Harbor
60 months
Michael Dewayne Horn
21
Benton Harbor
42 months
Ericka George
32
Kalamazoo
24 months
Daisy Laverne Dyer
44
Benton Harbor
18 months
"These substantial sentences, ranging from years to decades, should serve as a stark warning to others who might aspire to become drug dealers, or to provide assistance to them," said U.S. Attorney Birge. "Crystal methamphetamine is a dangerous drug, and these sentences underscore the serious consequences for those who get involved in its distribution."
"A coordinated effort from multiple law enforcement agencies successfully removed two dozen violent and dangerous drug dealers from southwest Michigan, but the work of protecting these communities continues," said Steven M. D’Antuono, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Detroit Division. "The FBI’s resolve to identify criminals who are trafficking these substances and bringing them to justice has not faltered and we will continue to work hand-in-hand with the DEA, SWET, and KVET to achieve this goal."
This case was investigated by the FBI, the DEA, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team, and the Southwest Enforcement Team (a component of the Michigan State Police), who were assisted by the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Michigan Department of Corrections, the Portage Police Department, the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety, the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office, the Berrien County Sheriff’s Office, the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Office, and TSA Investigations - Detroit Field Office. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Justin M. Presant, Jonathan Roth, Vito S. Solitro, and retired Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Courtade prosecuted the case.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
