Corey Luther Jones, Heroin Trafficking, Virginia 2023

NORFOLK, Va. - Two Portsmouth men were sentenced to a combined 33 years in prison for their roles in a family-run heroin-trafficking organization that trafficked at least one kilogram of heroin throughout Hampton Roads and sold handguns, rifles, and shotguns with the drugs.

Corey Luther Jones, 50, and Malcolm Dominic Jones, Jr., 25, were members of the Jones DTO run by Malcolm Jones, Sr., Corey Jones’s brother and Malcolm Jones, Jr.’s father. The organization operated at least three drug premises, including the “Court,” a residence serving as the distribution point for Jones’s drugs—heroin, fentanyl, Acetyl fentanyl, crack, and powder cocaine.

Since the beginning of 2017, the Court serviced 50 to 100 customers a day until authorities shut down the operation on Sept. 11, 2019. During that time, Corey and Malcolm Jr. lived at the court, managed drug-trafficking efforts there, and stockpiled firearms there to protect their drug trade.

Corey Jones was involved in more than 20 controlled purchases of heroin, fentanyl, and Acetyl fentanyl and sold several firearms during some of those deals—two rifles, including an AR-style rifle, two shotguns, and three handguns.

Corey Jones was sentenced to 20 years, while Malcolm Jones was sentenced to 13 years.

This case is part of Operation High Tide, a proactive, large-scale narcotics trafficking and firearms investigation that focused on high-impact targets driving crime in some of the most hardest hit neighborhoods in Hampton Roads.

This case is part of Project Guardian, the Attorney General’s signature initiative to reduce gun violence and enforce federal firearms laws.

The defendants were charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and Acetyl fentanyl, and various firearms charges.

The sentencing occurred on an unspecified date in 2023.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/two-members-family-run-heroin-trafficking-ring-sentenced