Two men arrested after a third was killed by a Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Midtown on April 16 are facing federal drug charges after they were found with over 100 pounds of cocaine.
Larry Stoker and Calvin Trahan were charged April 17, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Agents with the DEA were working in tandem with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation on a drug operation April 16 when one of the federal agents shot 36-year-old Deshawn Jones outside a Fairfield Inn and Suites on 29th Avenue North. Agents immediately provided Jones with aid but he later died at a nearby hospital, Jim Scott, special agent in charge of the DEA Louisville Field Division Office, said in a press conference from the scene…