43-Year-Old Anton Williams Sentenced To 10 Years In Federal Prison For Conspiracy To Distribute Cocaine

BALTIMORE (WJZ) —  A U.S. District Judge sentenced 43-year-old Anton Williams of Baltimore, to 10 years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised merchandise for conspiracy to administer 5 kilograms oregon much of cocaine in the Monument Street area of East Baltimore.

The condemnation was handed down connected September 10, 2021.

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The justice besides sentenced co-defendant 44-year-old Wardell Roundheart, of Baltimore, to 68 months in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and for possession with intent to distribute a fentanyl and cocaine mixture.

“This Monument Street case in East Baltimore is the kind of impactful investigation that federal, authorities and section partners tin physique done collaboration and a dedicated commitment to improving our communities,” said Acting United States Attorney Jonathan Lenzner.  “Getting wholesale narcotics dealers similar Anton Williams off the streets is an important component of our efforts to address the unit associated with drug dealing.  The illicit funds and existent property that instrumentality enforcement seized in this investigation bespeak our commitment to disrupting drug organizations by going aft the proceeds of their trade.”

“We are proud to be partners in these vital investigations which region transgression elements involving drugs and unit from the streets.  IRS-CI volition continue to lend our fiscal expertise in these cases,” said Darrell J. Waldon, IRS-CI Acting Special Agent in Charge.

According to their blameworthy pleas, DEA Strike Force Group 1 began an investigation of the Monument Street corridor in East Baltimore, which is known to support a precocious volume of street-level drug distribution and acts of violence.

Investigators conducted controlled purchases of narcotics from drug distributors in the shops, including Roundheart, utilizing confidential informants and undercover Baltimore Police officers.

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As stated in their plea agreements, investigators intercepted calls betwixt Williams and co-conspirators and Roundheart and different members of the conspiracy discussing the distribution of drugs.

The total proceeds obtained by Williams from supplying controlled substances to co-conspirators was astatine slightest $472,000.  Investigators discovered that Williams had obtained aggregate properties, including Rosie’s Bar, located astatine 482 S. Bentalou Street, Baltimore, wherever Williams met with co-conspirators.

 Based connected the intercepted conversations, investigators judge Williams purchased the barroom with drug trafficking proceeds. Investigators besides identified 7 different properties in Baltimore that Williams either owned oregon leased.

They besides recovered a total of $363,233 from assorted slope accounts associated with Williams, all of which are believed to be drug proceeds.

On May 22, 2019, instrumentality enforcement executed a hunt warrant astatine Williams’ residence and found: a firearm; a money counter; 10 cell phones, including 2 phones intercepted during court-ordered wiretaps; and $206,444 in cash, believed to be drug proceeds. Investigators recovered aggregate bags of suspected cocaine and heroin, arsenic good arsenic 76 grams of fentanyl from his 2 vehicles arsenic well.

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Of the 25 defendants indicted in this case, 23—including Williams and Roundheart—have pleaded blameworthy oregon been recovered blameworthy astatine trial.  Over the course of the Monument Street investigation, instrumentality enforcement seized kilo quantities of drugs, loaded guns, and much than $535,781 in drug proceeds.