A 14-month investigation by local, state and federal law enforcement officers led to a 32-count federal indictment against 10 people who allegedly dealt drugs in the Dogwood Terrace housing complex.
According to a release from U.S. Attorney Edmund A. Booth Jr., a federal jury charged the defendants with conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Those charged are Reginald Darrell Beale, 28, and Latria Grenise Smith, 26, both of Hephzibah; Thomas Polonco Beale, 36, Brian Christopher Harris, 27, Mark Jones, 52, Sylvester Ruben Lewis, 33, Jaimere Prosser, 26, and Marsignor C. White,26, all of Augusta; Sequoyah Elam, 28, of Lincolnton, Ga.; and Derrick D. King, 31, of Milledgeville, Ga.
The investigation was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s CSRA Safe Streets Task Force, which consists of officers and agents from the FBI, the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Marshal Service.
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It takes 14 months?!?!?!?! They better be locked up for the long haul because I know they've got a ton of evidence. no plea deal this time!
any one of these people living within public housing, along with any of their families should immediately be evicted and permanently BARRED from receiving any further government assistance. PERIOD
The people living in and hanging around section 8 housing are no different than those who work for and buy their own home so you should welcome them into your neighborhood. It's no wonder Section 8's connotation is slum, crime ridden, baby factory, drug super store, etc. I'm sure the people who lived there didn't know anything about the big drug gang in their hood.
sell drugs u go to jail steal someones 401k and they make u CEO. I don't get it?
One more thing, please post the jobs, if they had any, of those arrested so hard working honest people can go apply for them
Oh yeah, they had a "job". Selling drugs!!! Do you honestly think this was just something they did on the side, lol?
I'm suuuure noone in Dogwood Terrace knew of annnything at all.
Why should distributing illicit drugs to kids not be a capital crime?
i say closed down or eliminate public assistance/housing for all those except the TRULY AND HONESTLY DISABLED AND ELDERLY. men in their late 20's/early 30's living in public housing?!?!?!?!?!
Keep looking, there's more. In the subdivisions.
Just arrested one in Harlem in a "decent" subdivision. They're everywhere and it seems to be no stopping it.