(The Center Square) – A Detroit man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for leading a drug organization that trafficked methamphetamine nationwide.
United States District Judge David M. Lawson sentenced the leader of that organization for his role overseeing the drug conspiracy and in a separate $2.1 million pandemic unemployment insurance fraud conspiracy.
Robert Lampkin, 41, led a drug conspiracy that bought over 9 kilograms of methamphetamine from a supplier in California that codefendants JoShawn Bennett, 37, Tiffany Stockman, 24, and Tammie Wade, 32, brought back to Michigan in airline luggage.
Lampkin and codefendant Brenden Lockridge, 26, separately used stolen personal information of other individuals to file fraudulent claims for pandemic unemployment assistance in multiple states.
Lampkin’s and Lockridge’s sentences also require them to pay back the $2.1 million stolen from multiple states as restitution.
United States Attorney Dawn Ison welcomed the sentencing.