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A Santa Clarita man was sentenced to federal prison Thursday, after he allegedly trafficked drugs in stuffed animals that were shipped throughout the nation, which led to at least one person’s death.
Jerrell Eugene Anderson, 34 from Santa Clarita, was sentenced by United States District Judge George H. Wu to eight years in federal prison.
Anderson pleaded guilty on June 10 to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin, and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, according to officials.
From at least July 2018 to March 2019, Anderson conspired with others to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine that they sold on darknet marketplaces.
Specifically, Anderson advertised and sold drugs to customers on the darknet marketplaces Dream and Wall Street Market, using monikers such as “Drugpharmacist” and “rickandmortyshop.”
Anderson and his accomplices packaged drugs in stuffed animals for shipment to their darknet customers, according to court documents.
Anderson and his co-conspirators then delivered from San Fernando Valley stash houses packages containing drugs to post offices throughout the Los Angeles area for shipment to their customers nationwide.
For example, in August 2018, Anderson and a co-conspirator knowingly distributed heroin to a victim in Knoxville, Tennessee whose death resulted from using the heroin.
Also, in March 2019, in a Glendale apartment, Anderson and other co-conspirators possessed methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine for distribution to darknet customers, according to officials.
At that time, Anderson knowingly possessed a semiautomatic pistol in furtherance of the drug trafficking conspiracy.
The other defendants in this case — Christopher Canion Von Holton, 37, of Woodland Hills; Kenneth Lashawn Hadley, 37, of Las Vegas; Adan Sepulveda, 31, of Palmdale; and Jackie Walter Burns, 26, of Lancaster, each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and have been sentenced.
The United States Postal Inspection Service, the FBI, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Fairfax County (Virginia) Police Department, the Knoxville (Tennessee) Police Department, and the Cleburne County (Arkansas) Sheriff’s Office investigated this matter.
Assistant United States Attorneys Khaldoun Shobaki and Lauren Restrepo of the Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section prosecuted this case.
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So this Jackass was sentenced to Federal prison but you can’t tell us how many years he’ll spend in the slammer and unable to kill other citizens?
It says eight years in the very first sentence of the article. I hope he has a very bad time in prison.
With all the evidence that they appear to have, why was his sentence so light. 8 years. That’s BS. At least he will serve 80% of that because it’s federal, but still it should have been closer to 15 years. The whole group of them. This proves that there was never a war on drugs. They can’t even get something this simple right.