The ringleader of a Tulsa-based drug trafficking organization, Donald Walters, 35, of Tulsa, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to drug conspiracy, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, and conspiracy to sponsor and exhibit an animal in an animal fighting venture.
Walters admitted to purchasing cocaine and arranging to have it cooked into crack cocaine at drug houses operated by conspirators. The drugs were then sold throughout Tulsa.
Walters frequently used telephones to facilitate the drug conspiracy, and he and co-conspirators used coded terms in order to keep the conspiracy a secret. Walters further admitted that he was the leader and organizer of a continuing criminal enterprise with at least five co-conspirators.
According to the plea agreement, Walters arranged to have drugs transported through Dallas, Oklahoma City, and Tulsa as they moved toward Ohio and the northeastern United States.
Law enforcement discovered that the Hoover Crips and Walters DTO brought approximately $10,000,000 worth of cocaine and marijuana through Tulsa over a three-year period.
At sentencing, Walters faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years of imprisonment and a maximum penalty of life and a fine of up to $20,000,000. In addition to the prison sentence, he will forfeit seized criminal proceeds, facilitating real property and vehicle, and a $10,000,000 criminal forfeiture judgment representing proceeds of the drug conspiracy.
The case was the result of a three-year U.S. Attorney’s Office, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force investigation, led by the Tulsa Police Department’s Homicide and Special Investigation Divisions and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Key Facts
- State: Oklahoma
- Category: Drug Trafficking|Fraud & Financial Crimes|Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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