ST. LOUIS – In a major blow to the city’s narcotics trade, a 49-year-old St. Louis resident has been sentenced to 125 months in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine.
David M. Foston, a St. Louis, Missouri resident, pleaded guilty in February to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
Foston was indicted in May 2019 with 14 others in St. Louis, Missouri, for conspiring to distribute more than 25 kilograms of cocaine, 10 kilograms of heroin, and three kilograms of fentanyl.
Law enforcement seized more than $2,036,981 from drug payments and profits, luxury jewelry, and vehicles throughout the investigation.
Investigators from the Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division uncovered a cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution organization transporting kilogram quantities of cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl from Mexico, through Texas and Florida, to the St. Louis Metropolitan area.
The higher echelon of the conspiracy served federal prison sentences for prior controlled substance violations in the Federal Correction Institution in Florence, Colorado beginning in the late 2000s.
Foston and his co-conspirators utilized drug couriers and vehicles with concealed compartments to ship multi-kilogram amounts of cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl to a residence in Spanish Lake, Missouri from Houston, Texas and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
On March 17, 2018, DEA special agents and task force officers located and seized $1,304,804.00 in drug payments from the St. Louis-based distributors in Phelps County, Missouri as a courier was traveling back to drug suppliers in Texas.
On April 20, 2018, the DEA intercepted a courier in possession of 25 kilograms of cocaine destined for the St. Louis drug distributors.
In July 2018, investigators seized three kilograms of fentanyl and $263,000 in drug payments from a courier’s vehicle in Oklahoma.
In September 2018, investigators searched the Spanish Lake residence and seized 10 kilograms of heroin.
This case was investigated by Drug Enforcement Administration offices in St. Louis, Houston (Texas), Fort Lauderdale (Florida), Detroit (Michigan), the United States Marshal’s Service, St. Charles County Police, St. Louis Metropolitan Police, Bridgeton Police, Phelps County Sherriff’s Department and Cleveland, Texas Police.
Foston, a St. Louis, Missouri resident, was sentenced on by United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig.
David M. Foston, a 49-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident, pleaded guilty in February to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
Foston was indicted with 14 others in St. Louis, Missouri, in May 2019 for conspiring to distribute more than 25 kilograms of cocaine, 10 kilograms of heroin, and three kilograms of fentanyl.
The exact date of the crime was not specified.
The exact date of the crime was not specified.
Foston was sentenced to 125 months in prison.
Law enforcement seized more than $2,036,981 from drug payments and profits, luxury jewelry, and vehicles throughout the investigation.
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Key Facts
- State: Missouri
- Category: Drug Trafficking
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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