SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A Shreveport man will spend more than a decade in federal prison for selling cocaine and a handgun to a confidential informant.
According to court documents, on Dec. 17, 2025, Timothy Wayne Griffin, 52, of Shreveport, agreed to sell approximately 57 grams of crack cocaine and a 9mm SCCY CPX-2 handgun, which he exchanged with an informant for $1,850 in the parking lot of a local liquor store.
On Oct. 9, U.S. District Judge Jerry Edwards, Jr. sentenced Griffin to 130 months in federal prison for Distributing a Controlled Substance and Possessing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, followed by four years of supervised release. Griffin previously pled guilty to the charge on June 9…