Rolando Antuain Williamson, Continuing Criminal Enterprise, Alabama 2023

Drug Trafficking Ring Dismantled in Birmingham, Alabama

A 14-defendant indictment, part of a three-year Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation, has brought to justice a multi-million dollar continuing criminal enterprise and conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana in western Jefferson County, Alabama.

The investigation, which identified acts by the organization over a period of six years, involved the FBI, IRS-CID, HSI, member agencies of the FBI North Alabama Safe Streets Task Force, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department, and Bessemer Police Department.

Rolando Antuain Williamson, 34, aka “Baldhead” and “Ball Head,” was already in custody and charged with the original federal indictment for possessing with intent to distribute a large quantity of heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana, and firearms on August 22, 2019.

According to the indictment, Williamson is charged with the “Kingpin Statute,” a count of continuing criminal enterprise, a serious charge reserved for principal orchestrators who obtain substantial income or resources from drug trafficking enterprises involving several persons and substantial amounts of drugs. If convicted, Williamson will spend the rest of his life in prison.

The man accused as the leader of the organization, Williamson, was arrested on August 22, 2019, in the parking lot of the Publix grocery store located at 411 Green Springs Highway, Homewood, Alabama. He was driving a 2016 Dodge Hellcat valued at $80,000 that was purchased with laundered money. At the time of arrest, Williamson possessed two loaded pistols (with additional loaded magazines) and almost $14,000 in cash.

Seized on that day from Williamson and three of his stash houses, were 366 grams of heroin/fentanyl, 109 grams of suspected cocaine, 573 grams of pure methamphetamine, and 52 kilos of marijuana. Found with the drugs was over $97,000 in cash, an arsenal of firearms, and ammunition.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/law-enforcement-rounds-members-birmingham-based-continuing-criminal-enterprise