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Jamaican Gets Hard Time In Connecticut For Weed, Guns, And Fake ID’s

A cit­i­zen of Jamaica who was last liv­ing in Hamden was sen­tenced Tuesday to more than 24 years in prison for mar­i­jua­na traf­fick­ing, firearm pos­ses­sion and mon­ey laun­der­ing offens­es, accord­ing to fed­er­al officials.
Andrew Davis was sen­tenced by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to a total of 295 months in prison, fed­er­al author­i­ties said. He faces immi­gra­tion pro­ceed­ings when he com­pletes his prison term
The case arose after Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Connecticut State Police began an inves­ti­ga­tion in 2013 into indi­vid­u­als “who were mov­ing large amounts of mar­i­jua­na from the Southwestern United States to Connecticut,” fed­er­al author­i­ties said in a state­ment, cit­ing evi­dence pre­sent­ed dur­ing Davis’ tri­al in December 2018. Federal author­i­ties said that, “inves­ti­ga­tors inter­cept­ed four pack­ages, each con­tain­ing approx­i­mate­ly eight kilo­grams of mar­i­jua­na, from the U.S. Mail, and made mul­ti­ple con­trolled pur­chas­es of the drug from a mem­ber of the traf­fick­ing ring.”

Davis was arrest­ed on Feb. 1, 2017, after inves­ti­ga­tors “con­duct­ed court-autho­rized search­es of a Hamden apart­ment that Davis shared with his girl­friend, Shanice Goffe; a stor­age unit in West Haven that was rent­ed in Goffe’s name, and two Bridgeport apart­ments that Davis main­tained under dif­fer­ent aliases.”
A search of the Hamden unit revealed “more than one pound of mar­i­jua­na, a loaded 9mm hand­gun, box­es of .45 cal­iber ammu­ni­tion, $62,409 in cash, and numer­ous false iden­ti­fi­ca­tions, includ­ing a U.S. pass­port, all of which con­tained a pho­to of Davis,” fed­er­al author­i­ties said in the state­ment. “A search of the stor­age unit revealed approx­i­mate­ly 33 kilo­grams of mar­i­jua­na, ammu­ni­tion and firearm mag­a­zines, addi­tion­al false iden­ti­fi­ca­tions, and $350,100 in cash.

“A search of a Bridgeport apart­ment rent­ed in the name of “Cordel Freckleton” yield­ed one firearm, and a search of an apart­ment rent­ed in the name of ‘Andrew Carter’ revealed more than 60 pounds of mar­i­jua­na and two firearms, one of which was stolen,” fed­er­al author­i­ties said in the state­ment. Investigators also seized a 2014 BMW X6, a 2016 Honda Accord, and a 2008 Honda Odyssey, all of which were reg­is­tered to Goffe and had been pur­chased with pro­ceeds of the mar­i­jua­na traf­fick­ing enter­prise, accord­ing to fed­er­al authorities.

The inves­ti­ga­tion also revealed that Davis, using the name “Steve Williams,” was under inves­ti­ga­tion in 2008 for mar­i­jua­na traf­fick­ing, fed­er­al author­i­ties said in the state­ment. In August 2008, Bridgeport Police searched Davis’s Bridgeport apart­ment and dis­cov­ered “a fake iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, pho­tos of Davis/​Williams, three firearms, extend­ed mag­a­zines, ammu­ni­tion, drug pack­ag­ing para­pher­na­lia, mar­i­jua­na pack­aged for resale, and eight UPS receipts for pack­ages that had not arrived,” fed­er­al author­i­ties said in the state­ment. Bridgeport Police sub­se­quent­ly seized the UPS pack­ages, which con­tained a total of more than 75 pounds of mar­i­jua­na. “Williams” was not located.

At the time of Davis’s fed­er­al arrest in 2017, inves­ti­ga­tors seized more than 40 iden­ti­fi­ca­tion cards with false names, includ­ing the names of the addressees of the 2008 Bridgeport pack­ages, fed­er­al author­i­ties said in the state­ment. “When pre­sent­ed to U.S. Marshals and asked his name, Davis said, ‘Let’s go with Steve Williams.’”

On Dec. 18, 2018, the jury found Davis guilty of one count of con­spir­a­cy to dis­trib­ute and to pos­sess with intent to dis­trib­ute 100 kilo­grams or more of mar­i­jua­na, one count of pos­ses­sion with intent to dis­trib­ute 50 kilo­grams or more of mar­i­jua­na, one count of pos­ses­sion of firearms in fur­ther­ance of a drug traf­fick­ing crime, and one count of con­spir­a­cy to com­mit mon­ey laun­der­ing, accord­ing to fed­er­al authorities.

On Nov. 20, 2017, Goffe plead­ed guilty to one count of con­spir­a­cy to dis­trib­ute and to pos­sess with intent to dis­trib­ute 50 kilo­grams or more of mar­i­jua­na, and one count of con­spir­a­cy to com­mit mon­ey laun­der­ing, fed­er­al author­i­ties said in the state­ment. On Feb. 28, 2018, she was sen­tenced to 30 months in prison.
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