Sean P. Costello U.S. Attorney | U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama
A Mobile man, Marvin McCaine, was sentenced in federal court for his involvement in Darrin Southall's drug trafficking organization. McCaine, aged 55, had pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine in April 2023.
Court documents revealed that McCaine was a distributor within Southall's network and was mentioned in the organization's drug ledgers. Investigators intercepted phone calls between McCaine and Southall, where they used coded language to hide their activities. The investigation documented that McCaine received multiple kilograms of cocaine for distribution in Mobile through these calls and cell phone analyses conducted after arrests were made. Federal and state authorities arrested Southall and many members of his group during 2021 and 2022, with about 30 individuals prosecuted federally so far.
United States District Court Judge Terry F. Moorer sentenced McCaine to 10 years' imprisonment. As McCaine was under federal supervised release from a prior drug conviction, Judge Moorer revoked this release term, adding an additional 37 months of imprisonment to be served consecutively with the current sentence. Upon release, McCaine will undergo another 10 years on supervised release with conditions including testing and treatment for substance abuse and searches upon reasonable suspicion. He must also pay $100 in special assessments, and any interest he held in seized property is forfeited to the United States.
The case involved several law enforcement agencies: the Mobile Police Department, the Mobile County Sheriff's Office, Homeland Security Investigations, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Baldwin County Sheriff's Office, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, Saraland Police Department, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gloria Bedwell prosecuted the case for the United States.
