Gregory Harold Moore, Drug Trafficking, Tennessee 2016

GREGORY HAROLD MOORE, 47, of Surgoinsville, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 360 months in federal prison for his involvement in a complex drug trafficking ring.

According to his plea agreement, Moore admitted to selling approximately two ounces of methamphetamine to an individual working with law enforcement between May 2015 and August 2015. A search warrant executed at his Surgoinsville residence in August 2015 revealed approximately 48 firearms, over $24,000 in cash, and 190 hydrocodone pills.

While incarcerated, Moore engaged in numerous recorded telephone calls with co-defendants, directing them to collect pain pills and methamphetamine to hide from the police and sell to raise profit. He also instructed his wife, Pamela Moore, to spread the word about the individual working with law enforcement and to get another co-defendant, Donnie Dwayne Wallen, to cause bodily injury to that person.

During one recorded call, Moore estimated that there was over $30,000 worth of pills hidden at his residence. Law enforcement agents returned to Moore’s residence and located 355 oxymorphone pills, 357 oxycodone pills, and 7.4 ounces of methamphetamine that had been hidden by Moore.

Moore’s co-defendants, Pamela Moore, David Allen Davis, Kathy Denice Jones, and Donnie Dwayne Wallen, have also been implicated in the conspiracy. Pamela Moore and Davis have sentencing hearings scheduled in U.S. District Court within the next few months.

On August 19, 2016, Moore was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge R. Leon Jordan to serve 360 months in federal prison. Moore’s sentence includes convictions for conspiracies to distribute methamphetamine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, and oxymorphone, as well as conspiracy to threaten bodily injury to a person in retaliation for suspected cooperation with law enforcement and engaging in intimidating and threatening conduct with the intent to influence or prevent testimony in an official proceeding and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.

The investigation was led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee. This case is a prime example of the dangers of drug trafficking and the importance of holding perpetrators accountable for their crimes.

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