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Leader of criminal enterprise distributing meth to Missouri and Oklahoma arrested

His enterprise brought an estimated 2,000 pounds of methamphetamine to Oklahoma and Missouri

Several residents of Missouri were indicted on Friday following the charging of Luis Alfredo Jacobo with, “leading a continuing criminal enterprise that brought an estimated 2,000 pounds of methamphetamine into the Nothern District of Oklahoma and southwestern Missouri for redistribution.”

That information comes from a release from the US Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Oklahoma.

The release goes on to say, “Jacobo was arrested by federal agents Monday. Also arrested were Kelly Wayne Bryan and Curtis Anthony Jones in Missouri, who were charged as part of one of Jacobo’s alleged drug conspiracies. The indictment also charged Jesus Valdez Martinez and Antonio Cervantes Garcia as Jacobo’s coconspirators. Martinez is in federal custody for a related case in Montana. Garcia is in federal custody for a related case in the Western District of Oklahoma.

According to the indictment, bulk distributors brought the methamphetamine to Bakersfield from Mexico. From there, Jacobo directed that the methamphetamine be sent via U.S. mail to the groups in Oklahoma and Missouri or driven there in vehicles, sometimes in quantities of 50 to 100 pounds at a time. Coconspirators would drive large amounts of cash back to California or would mail cash payments back to Jacobo and to others at Jacobo’s direction. The coconspirators sometimes mailed as much as $100,000 cash at a time from Oklahoma to California as part of the enterprise.”

Later on in the news release, charges are discussed saying, “A total of 10 defendants were charged in this second superseding indictment with one or more of the following crimes: Continuing Criminal Enterprise (Count 1); Drug Conspiracy (Counts 2-5); Maintaining a Drug-Involved Premises (Counts 6,7); Interstate Travel to Aid Racketeering (Counts 8,13); Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Distribute (Count 9); Possession of Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime (Count 10); Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Distribute (Count 11); and Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Distribute (Count 12).”

Also mentioned are the defendants involved,

“Defendants charged in the indictment are:

  • Luis Alfredo Jacobo, a/k/a “Lokz,” 30, of Bakersfield, California
  • Antonio Cervantes Garcia, a/k/a “Tony Garcia,” 33, of Bakersfield, California
  • William Donavan Johnson III, 46, of Grove
  • Shauni Breanne Callagy, 31, of Grove
  • David Scott Chambers, a/k/a “Scott Chambers,” 52, of Springfield, Missouri
  • Gene Olen Charles Rast, a/k/a “Charlie Rast,” 46, of Elkland, Missouri
  • Renee Lynn Haynes, 40, of Bolivar, Missouri
  • Jesus Valdez Martinez, a/k/a “Jesse Martinez,” a/k/a “Hostile,” 46, of Bolivar, Missouri
  • Kelly Wayne Bryan, 54, of Joplin, Missouri
  • Curtis Anthony Jones, 44, of Marshfield, Missouri”

View the full news release here.

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