Savannah, GA: An admitted gang member who was a major supplier for a methamphetamine-trafficking operation in the coastal Georgia area has been sentenced to federal prison.
Daniel Jeffers, 31, of Savannah, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge R. Stan Baker to 110 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute More Than 50 Grams of Methamphetamine, said Bobby L. Christine, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia.
Following his sentence, Jeffers must serve three years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
“With the final sentence in an operation that saw every single defendant plead guilty, our courageous law enforcement partners conducted a solid investigation that shut down an organization of violent, gang-related and cartel-supplied meth traffickers,” said U.S. Attorney Christine.
The investigation, dubbed Operation Who’s Laughing Now, is an offshoot of Operation Vanilla Gorilla, an Organized Crime Drug Trafficking Task Forces investigation that targeted major trafficking of methamphetamine and other drugs into the coastal Georgia area by criminals associated with the Ghost Face Gangsters, a violent, prison-based white supremacist gang.
As described in court documents and testimony, Jeffers, an admitted member of the Ghost Face Gangsters, was a major supplier of methamphetamine to the other 17 co-defendants in Operation Who’s Laughing Now, frequently delivering kilogram amounts of meth supplied by Mexican cartels by way of Atlanta.
A 20-count indictment in May 2019 charged the defendants with a wide-ranging conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine and marijuana and with gun possession violations. The defendants were arrested during the operation conducted by the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), along with other local law enforcement agencies in a 20-county area of eastern Georgia.
“South Georgia residents can sleep better tonight knowing that the final defendant of this white supremacist street gang has been sentenced,” said Robert J. Murphy, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta Field Division. “This case demonstrates how DEA and its law enforcement partners work together to destroy drug distribution networks.”
This article must include the following mandatory facts:
- Defendant/Respondent: Daniel Jeffers
- Criminal Charges: Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute More Than 50 Grams of Methamphetamine
- City and State: Savannah, Georgia
- Exact Date: (no specific date mentioned)
- Sentence or Outcome: 110 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release
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Key Facts
- State: Georgia
- Category: Drug Trafficking|Organized Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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