BIRMINGHAM – The grim halls of justice echoed with the weight of justice this week as seven Alabama meth dealers were handed down their sentences for conspiring to distribute across northwest Alabama, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton.
The kingpin of this operation, GLADYS IVETTE RODRIGUEZ-VALLE, 34, from Pinson, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge R. David Proctor to nine years for her leadership role in the methamphetamine conspiracy. Rodriguez-Valle had admitted her guilt in December, confessing to sending couriers to Atlanta to purchase multiple kilograms of meth between January 2015 and June 2016.
Jeffrey Douglas Dunaway, 29, from Bear Creek, and Gregory Keith King, 35, of Hodges, were also sentenced for their roles. King was given nine years and nine months, while Dunaway received eight years and nine months.
The judge continued the streak of sentences with Allen M. Morgan, 35, Connie Hallmark Batchelor, 44, both from Jasper, Evan Andrew Norris, 39, and Kevin Wayne Blackburn, 44, from Russellville. Morgan was sentenced to five years and three months, Batchelor to eight years and four months, Norris to 14 years, and Blackburn to six years and eight months.
BRUCE ALAN ROBERTS, 37, of Pinson, the remaining defendant in the case, faces sentencing on July 18 for his involvement in the methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, as well as an unrelated wire fraud conspiracy he pleaded guilty to in March.
The DEA led the investigation into this methamphetamine ring, with Assistant U.S. Attorney L. James Weil Jr. handling the prosecution.
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- State: Alabama
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Drug Trafficking|Fraud & Financial Crimes|Organized Crime
- Source: Official Source ↗
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