{"id":233669,"date":"2013-01-09T14:49:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T20:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233669"},"modified":"2013-01-10T14:32:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T20:32:52","slug":"cherokee-county-man-sentenced-for-drug-trafficking-in-east-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233669","title":{"rendered":"Cherokee County Man Sentenced for Drug Trafficking in East Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=233812\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-233812\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/01\/Justice-Department-logo2.jpg\" alt=\"Justice Department logo2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-233812\" \/><\/a>BEAUMONT &#8212; An Alto, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations. Kerry Wayne Griffin, 44, pleaded guilty on August 29, 2012, to conspiracy to posses with intent to distribute over 15 kilograms or more of cocaine and He was sentenced yesterday to 240 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Ron Clark.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors contend from 2008 to June 20, 2012, Donald Dixon, a.k.a. &#8220;Black&#8221;, Cedrick Fowler, a.k.a. &#8220;C&#8221; and &#8220;C-Murder&#8221;, Kerry Wayne Griffin, a.k.a. &#8220;Big Boy&#8221;, Omar Paunetto, Jose Angel Bustillos, Michael John Pereira, Rodney Stevenson, a.k.a. &#8220;Arod&#8221;, Darius Thorn, a.k.a. &#8220;Bs&#8221; and &#8220;Beez&#8221;, Tremaine Smith and Anthony Fowler conspired to traffic cocaine and crack cocaine throughout East Texas. <\/p>\n<p>Griffin&#8217;s role in the organization was to acquire powder cocaine from Dixon, and then redistribute the cocaine and cocaine base through others. Griffin and Thacker first began obtaining cocaine from Dixon in 2008, and in 2009 Griffin became the source of supply for C. Fowler. C. Fowler utilized the assistance of Stevenson, Thorn, A. Fowler, and Smith in the subsequent distribution of cocaine and cocaine base. Federal agents learned of the drug trafficking activity and conducted an extensive investigation of Griffin and his associates. On May 25, 2012, investigators executed an arrest and search warrant at Griffin&#8217;s residence and seized approximately $18,450 in cash as well as three firearms. <\/p>\n<p>On June 20, 2012, a federal grand jury returned a 10-count indictment charging 10 defendants, including Griffin, with drug trafficking violations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEAUMONT &#8212; An Alto, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations. Kerry Wayne Griffin, 44, pleaded guilty on August 29, 2012, to conspiracy to posses with intent to distribute over 15 kilograms or more of cocaine and He was sentenced yesterday to 240 months in federal prison by U.S. District &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233669\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cherokee County Man Sentenced for Drug Trafficking in East Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 22:48:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233669"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233934,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233669\/revisions\/233934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}