In one of the largest drug cases ever prosecuted in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, a judge sentenced six members of a multistate drug trafficking scheme, including a former Washington, D.C., schoolteacher.
“The coordinated efforts of many law enforcement agencies in this investigation and prosecution resulted in shutting down a gang that brought cocaine, crack and illegal guns into our community,” Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein said Wednesday.
The scheme involved distributing cocaine, crack and heroin in Maryland, the District of Columbia, California, New York, Texas and Wyoming, among other charges, prosecutors said.
According to evidence presented at trial, the defendants conspired from at least January 1997 to June 2004 to distribute cocaine, heroin and cocaine base and import kilogram quantities of cocaine from New York, California, Wyoming, Florida, Texas and Mexico.
In all, 27 defendants have been convicted in connection with the case, prosecutors said.
