CHARLESTON, SC – Derrick Maurice Simpson, 33, of North Charleston, was sentenced to twenty-eight years in federal jail after pleading responsible to conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
Proof introduced to the courtroom confirmed that in early 2020, Simpson organized shipments of kilograms of cocaine from Harlingen, Texas, to varied places all through the Charleston space. Brokers and Activity Power officers with the Charleston Resident Workplace of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) discovered that, with the help of his co-conspirators, Simpson was transporting drug proceeds to Texas, the place he would organize the packages, sometimes in teams of three or 4. at a time and containing one kilogram of cocaine every, to be shipped by way of the US Postal Service to Charleston. In the course of the investigation, legislation enforcement seized roughly eight and a half kilograms of cocaine and $195,000 in drug proceeds. Regulation enforcement estimates that Simpson and his co-conspirators shipped roughly 50 kilograms of cocaine to the Charleston space through the conspiracy.
U.S. District Decide David C. Norton sentenced Simpson to 336 months in jail, to be adopted by a time period of 10 years of court-ordered supervision. There isn’t a parole within the federal system.
This prosecution is a part of an OCDETF (Activity Forces Organized Crime Drug Enforcement) investigation. The OECDTF identifies, disrupts and dismantles the highest-level drug traffickers, cash launderers, gangs and transnational felony organizations that threaten the US utilizing a prosecutor-led, multi-agency strategy intelligence, which leverages the strengths of the federal authorities, state and native legislation enforcement companies towards felony networks. Extra details about the OCDETF program may be discovered at https://www.justice.gov/OCDETF.
This case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI), the US Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the South Carolina Regulation Enforcement Division (SLED), the Charleston County Sheriff's Workplace (CCSO) Division of Charleston Metropolis Police (CPD), Berkeley County Sheriff's Workplace (BCSO), Dorchester County Sheriff's Workplace (DCSO), Summerville Metropolis Police Division ( SPD), the North Charleston Police Division (NCPD), the Mount Nice Police Division (MPPD), and the South Carolina Freeway Patrol (SCHP).
Assistant US Legal professional Whit Sowards is prosecuting the case.
