Courtney Webster, Heroin Conspiracy, Kentucky 2022

Courtney Webster, 34, of Cincinnati, Sentenced for Heroin Conspiracy

COVINGTON, Ky. - Courtney Webster, 34, of Cincinnati, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute heroin. Webster was convicted of leading the conspiracy, which included Jonathan Stanley, Keith Johnson, and Michael Boone, and was responsible for distributing over a kilogram of heroin in Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati, from November 2016 through April 2018.

Court documents established that Webster distributed heroin himself and directed others who were selling heroin that he supplied. During the course of the investigation, law enforcement agents conducted over 20 controlled buys of heroin from conspiracy members.

All four defendants, including Jonathan Stanley, 34, of Cincinnati; Keith Johnson, 35, of Alexandria, Kentucky; and Michael Boone, 45, of Newport, Kentucky, were indicted in April 2018 and entered guilty pleas.

According to federal law, each defendant must serve at least 85 percent of their prison sentence, and following their release, they will be under the supervision of the United States Probation Office for an additional term.

Robert M. Duncan, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; James Robert Brown, Jr., Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Robert Nader, Chief of the Covington Police Department, jointly made the announcement. The investigation was conducted by the FBI and the Covington Police Department. The United States was represented by Assistant United States Attorney Tony Bracke.

The four defendants were sentenced as follows: Courtney Webster, 240 months in federal prison; Jonathan Stanley, 51 months in federal prison; Keith Johnson, 90 months in federal prison; and Michael Boone, 90 months in federal prison.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edky/pr/four-sentenced-week-conspiring-distribute-heroin