A Fairfax County cocaine dealer and bookie was sentenced Friday to two years and nine months in federal prison and ordered to
forfeit $2 million by a federal judge.
Dwight F. Day, 45, of Fairfax Station, was arrested March 28 after federal and Fairfax County investigators spent nearly a year tracking his drug dealing and sports gambling operation that he ran out of his business, KMN Sheetmetal.
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When his home and business were searched, investigators found cocaine residue and $270,000 in cash, court records said.
Law enforcement officials tracked Day’s wheeling and dealing using six unnamed informants, some of whom were friends with Day and his wife, and also known cocaine users, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration agent’s sworn statement.
Day, according to court documents, purchased his cocaine from Richard Moomau, who was reportedly described to federal agents as, “Ricky a baldheaded guy from Maryland who operates a white pickup truck.”
Moomau was arrested after he allegedly resupplied Day on March 28 at Day’s sheetmetal shop. When he was pulled over by Fairfax County police, Moomau was found with $2,800 in cash. Charges against, Moomau, however, have been dropped. Federal prosecutors declined to comment as to why.
The law enforcement informants repeatedly purchased cocaine from Day and observed Day with other clients. Agents also obtained a wiretap for Day’s cellular phone and at one point overhead a conversation where he discussed a gambling cash transfer of $180,000 as well as buying drugs.
According to prosecutors, Day often made gambling payments in amounts up to $180,000 to an unnamed third party. The cash was initially collected from bets made through an illegal Internet gambling operation. Day ran his bookie operation from September 2005 through the beginning of this year.
For the most part, prosecutors said, he sold cocaine to friends and business associates.
