Winston McGhee, Cocaine Conspiracy, Massachusetts 2024

Two alleged Boston gang members were sentenced this week in federal court in Boston for cocaine conspiracy and firearm charges.

Winston McGhee, 36, of Dorchester, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns to 115 months in prison, six years of supervised release and ordered to pay forfeiture of $24,984.

Eric Davis, 37, of Mattapan, was sentenced on Wednesday, June 9, 2020 by Judge Stearns to 105 months in prison, four years of supervised release and ordered to pay forfeiture of $49,000.

In February 2021, both men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and cocaine base and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

In June 2020, Davis and McGhee were charged along with 22 others as part of Operation Snowfall. According to the charging documents, beginning in November 2018, law enforcement conducted an investigation into drug trafficking activities by Boston-based street gang members and associates in the Commonwealth Development in Brighton, Mass., formerly known as Fidelis Way, a multi-apartment public housing development.

The investigation targeted large-scale drug suppliers and their associates. It is alleged that the targets continued to distribute cocaine and cocaine base throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown. Davis even traveled to California in April 2020 to try to obtain kilograms of cocaine.

At the conclusion of the investigation, law enforcement executed search warrants at Davis’s residence, a hotel room in Canton where Davis was arrested, McGhee’s residence and a “stash house” and recovered approximately two kilograms of cocaine, firearms, ammunition and nearly $75,000 in cash.

Acting United States Attorney Nathaniel R. Mendell; Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Boston Field Division; John Gibbons, U.S. Marshal for the District of Massachusetts; Colonel Christopher Mason, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police; and Boston Police Acting Commissioner Gregory Long made the announcement.

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