Jimmie Lee Swearengen, Jr., Methamphetamine Trafficking, Mississippi 2022

A Texas man has been sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for his role in an interstate drug trafficking operation that distributed kilogram quantities of methamphetamine in Natchez, Mississippi.

Natchez, Miss. – Jimmie Lee Swearengen, Jr., 43, of Mesquite, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette, III, for his participation in the conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

According to court documents, Swearengen conspired with Sammy Davis Wright, of Woodville, Wesley Bell of Natchez, Thomas Jerome Mitchell, of Victorville, CA, Justine Chambers of Victorville, CA, and Arthur Wilson, of Moreno Valley, CA, to distribute kilogram quantities of methamphetamine in the Natchez area from 2016 through 2018.

Jimmie Lee Swearengen, Jr. had prior convictions in Adams County Circuit Court in 2001 for possession and sale of cocaine in a church zone, and in 2010 for controlled substance violations.

This case is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) operation that identified, disrupted, and dismantled the highest-level drug traffickers, money launderers, gangs, and transnational criminal organizations that threaten the United States.

The investigation was conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force in Atlanta, GA, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, the Adams County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Mississippi Highway Patrol, and the Pearl Police Department.