Today, a Jamaican national was sentenced to more than six years in jail for conspiring to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.
Legal papers show that Caswell Richards, who is 56 years old, provided kilograms of cocaine to distributors in the Washington, D.C. area on a regular basis in 2019. During this illegal operation, Richards supplied at least 15 tons of cocaine to the other people who were in on it. He sent cocaine to Maryland with the help of a broker named Hopeton Fletcher, who was 53 and from Gaithersburg, Maryland. To avoid getting caught by the police, Richards set up deals with Fletcher. Fletcher then talked directly with Simeon Orekoya, a 50-year-old man from Washington, D.C., who sold cocaine in the Eastern District of Virginia and other places in the D.C. area from January 2017 to December 2019.
Orekoya was sentenced to 195 months in prison on June 15, 2021, for his participation in a cocaine distribution and firearms trafficking conspiracy. On the other hand, Fletcher was given a 42-month jail sentence on April 19 for his part in the same plot.
The sentences were announced by Jessica D. Aber, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Jarod Forget, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Washington Division, and Sarah Linden, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Criminal and Cyber Division. Judge Rossie D. Alston of the U.S. District Court gave the sentence.
The case was brought to court by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Lauren Hahn and Assistant U.S. Attorney Bibeane Metsch.
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