![]() ![]() Stevenson and his co-conspirators brought eight kilograms, or roughly 17.5 pounds, of methamphetamine from Arizona to South Dakota with the intent to distribute it. As part of his conviction, Stevenson will serve 25 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release and make a special assessment of $100 to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.īeginning on an unknown date and continuing until sometime in January 2021, Stevenson and multiple others came to an agreement to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine in South Dakota and elsewhere. William Stevenson, 56, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced July 5 for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and obstructing justice by retaliating against a witness. Kaminarides was given a 12-month supervision order to go alongside a drug rehabilitation requirement and ordered to pay £400.SIOUX FALLS - An Arizona man will spend the next 25 years in prison after he attempted to sell drugs to an undercover agent during a meth distribution campaign and later assaulted his co-conspirator in jail. If I sent you to prison I would undo all of that." "You also have a job, a good job, and are working hard, all of which is positive. "You want to concentrate on your responsibilities - your six-month-old daughter and the mother of that daughter. "However, to your credit you surrendered to police when you were wanted, admitted matters and pleaded guilty at the first reasonable opportunity. When delivering the sentence, Judge Christopher Critchlow said: "You are somebody who has taken drugs, somebody who was not a police target in the operation, but you were caught up by it. Mr Evans said that Kaminarides was not a drug dealer, and on these two occasions he was effectively doing a favour for a friend. "He still gets phone calls from people he knew, but tells them all he is not interested." "As a result he has stopped using drugs altogether," Mr Evans said. John Evans, defending, said the arrest came as a shock to Kaminarides and that the defendant accepted his past use of Class A drugs. "Police left information that they were looking for him and subsequently the defendant surrendered himself to Woking police station where he was arrested and interviewed and admitted both offences," Mr Cleaver told the court. On January 20 this year police attended Kaminarides' address but he was not in. The defendant and the officer met up a second time on October 12 last year after the officer sent Kaminarides a text message asking for cocaine, and the same amount of money was handed over.Īpproximately 2g of the drug was supplied to the undercover officer during the two incidents, the court heard. "They met up in the Shepperton area and a transaction took place for the sum of £1,000." "The defendant asked for the phone number of the person interested with receiving some drugs and contact was made. "They went to a local library were Mark was able to access a Facebook page using the library's internet and obtained the contact details for this defendant," Mr Cleaver said. "He was not able to provide any, but said he knew somebody who might be able to assist. "The officer asked Mark for some cocaine," Mr Cleaver said. ![]() Wayne Cleaver, prosecuting, told the court that the undercover officer met with an individual known as Mark at a community centre in Guildford on September 29 last year. The court heard that Kaminarides was caught as a result of Operation Abracadabra, despite the man not being a specific police target. James Kaminarides, 27, of Haslett Road, was sentenced before Guildford Crown Court on Friday, May 11. A MAN from Shepperton has pleaded guilty to supplying Class A drugs to an undercover police officer.
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