David Crummy, Cocaine Trafficking, North Carolina 2013

A Wilmington man has been sentenced to 180 months in prison for his role in a large-scale crack cocaine trafficking operation.

David Crummy, 50, of Wilmington, North Carolina, was sentenced on January 31, 2013, by Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox.

Crummy was found guilty of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute and distributing more than 280 grams of cocaine base, also known as crack cocaine.

The investigation, which was part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Operation WoofPack, uncovered that Crummy was responsible for the importation, conversion, and distribution of more than 4 kilograms of cocaine base from January 2010 until the time of his arrest.

On June 30, 2011, New Hanover County Sheriff’s Detectives executed a search warrant at the residence of one of Crummy’s co-conspirators in Wilmington, North Carolina. During the search, officers found approximately 249 grams of crack cocaine.

Crummy was supplying crack cocaine in the Wilmington area. The case was brought as a part of an OCDETF Operation entitled WoofPack, which is investigating importers and multi-level distributors of heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, and gang activity associated with this distribution.

So far, 29 persons have been sentenced in federal court as a part of this OCDETF. The investigation of this OCDETF case is being conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (Safe Streets Task Force); the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives; the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations; the Wilmington Police Department; the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office, and the Greenville Police Department.

Special Assistant United States Attorney Timothy Severo represents the government. Mr. Severo is a prosecutor with the New Hanover District Attorney’s Office. District Attorney Ben David has assigned him to the United States Attorney’s office to prosecute federal Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force criminal matters.

Related Federal Cases