Reagan T. Fondren Acting United States Attorney for the Western District Of Tennessee | U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee
A Tennessee man has received a prison sentence of more than seven years following his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine in the Memphis area.
Courtney Davis, 28, of Memphis, who is also referred to as Geo and Geo Grape, was found guilty of conspiring with Brian Lackland, also known by several aliases, including Stupid Duke, Spooky Duke, Duke, and Homework, in the distribution of these illegal substances. The case was part of an investigation into the Young Mob gang, also called Young Mob Military, which was engaged in trafficking fentanyl and methamphetamine.
Since March 2024, investigators and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Memphis Multiagency Gang Unit had authorized wiretaps in place. These interceptions captured Davis in conversation with Lackland about the acquisition and distribution of fentanyl pills resembling blue 30mg oxycodone pills, known as "blues." Davis was linked to the handling of approximately 90 grams of fentanyl and 1360 grams of methamphetamine.
Davis is the first of 18 defendants in this ongoing investigation to be sentenced. His plea of guilty came in December 2024 for charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute fentanyl.
The Justice Department’s Criminal Division and the Acting U.S. Attorney Reagan Fondren for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentencing.
The case was investigated by the ATF and the Memphis Multiagency Gang Unit, while prosecution was conducted by Trial Attorneys Brian P. Leaming and Amanda Kotula from the Criminal Division’s Violent Crime and Racketeering Section, alongside Assistant U.S. Attorney P. Neal Oldham for the Western District of Tennessee.
This initiative forms part of a greater endeavor by the Criminal Division to tackle violent crime in Memphis in collaboration with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Tennessee as well as local, state, and federal law enforcement. The effort leverages federal legislation to prosecute members and affiliates of gangs contributing to violent crime in the region.
