MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Ten Tennessee residents have been sentenced in connection to a drug trafficking scheme that shipped methamphetamine, fentanyl, and marijuana from California to Tennessee.
Brantley Miller, 39, of Humboldt, was sentenced Friday to six years in federal prison. Miller pleaded guilty Sept. 24, Miller to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee said Miller was the final defendant in the case. The FBI along with other state and federal agencies began their investigation in 2019.
Throughout the investigation’s course, law enforcement agents seized over 32 pounds of methamphetamine and over 101 grams of fentanyl in the Western District of Tennessee.
Along with Miller, these were the other defendants who pleaded guilty in the case, along with their sentences:
- Kendall Young, 32, Humboldt, TN: 188 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
- Cortez Jackson, 29, Humboldt, TN: 134 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
- Vanessa Umanzor, 28, Huntingdon, TN: 43 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
- Tristen Teague, 28, Paris, TN: 100 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
- Orlando Sangster, 35, Humboldt, TN: 24 months in prison and 2 years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
- Jonathan Sandoval, 31, Chula Vista, CA: 120 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
- Dejahn Jarrett, 31, Spring Valley, CA: 72 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
- Ronnie Young, 69, Humboldt, TN: 120 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
- Jaycent Montrell Pankey, a/k/a Jaycent Montrell Cox, 28, Jackson, TN: 42 months in prison and one year of supervised release for use of a telephone device to aid the distribution of methamphetamine.
- Devon Avery Landers, 53, Jackson, TN: 36 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
- Joel Lynn Arnold 45, Lexington, TN: 84 months in prison and 4 years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.