Inmate who orchestrated drug conspiracies from prison sentenced

31-year old Tymalk Quane Love was in an Oklahoma prison, paying his debt to society.

But that didn’t keep him from orchestrating two major drug conspiracies.

Love was sentenced in Federal Court last week to a total of 10 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Five of those years were for possession of a firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

Prosecutors say using contraband cell phones, Love directed the trafficking of methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl from behind prison walls.

In a written plea agreement, Love admitted that from January 2018 to February 2019, he conspired with others, including a Tulsa “Facilitator,” to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and an unknown quantity of heroin.

Love admitted he used contraband cell phones to communicate with the Facilitator from prison about when and in what manner pills laced with fentanyl and shipped from Mexico would be sent to the Facilitator’s house in Tulsa.

The fentanyl pills, often referred to as “Mexican Oxys,” are illicitly manufactured in Mexico to look like prescription oxycodone tablets. Users frequently believe they are taking oxycodone or a comparable opioid, but the fentanyl laced pills, which are much stronger than oxycodone, often lead to overdose and death.