Latest Legal News from the Federal Criminal Courts in the United States

May 20, 2007

WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, MAN SENTENCED TO MORE THAN 11 YEARS
IN FEDERAL PRISON, WITHOUT PAROLE, ON CRACK COCAINE CONVICTION

DALLAS - Entonyo Elijah Jones, of Wichita Falls, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. Senior District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer to 135 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper, of the Northern District of Texas. Jones, 24, pled guilty in February to a one-count indictment charging possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (crack cocaine).

Jones was arrested with a large quantity of crack cocaine on September 21, 2006, by officers of the Wichita Falls Police Department following a routine traffic stop. In papers filed in Court, Jones admitted that he knowingly possessed with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base (crack cocaine).