Man convicted in Indiana drug case among those granted clemency

President Biden pardoned three individuals and commuted the sentences of 75 others, together with a Louisville man convicted in an Indiana drug case.

In December 2008, Thomas Perkins was sentenced to twenty years in jail plus 10 years of supervised launch after being convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

The sentence will now expire on Aug. 24, 2022. Perkins will nonetheless serve the supervised launch element, in response to the White Home.

He was one in all 26 individuals indicted by a grand jury in 2007 as a part of Operation Tombstone, a months-long investigation involving the DEA Evansville Workplace and the FBI Evansville Secure Streets Job Pressure.

The investigation targeted on two teams concerned in drug exercise, in response to the DEA. Perkins was one in all a number of individuals charged, with federal prosecutors alleging he was a part of a cocaine trafficking operation.

Biden commuted the sentences of Perkins and 74 others in primarily nonviolent, drug-related circumstances. The president pardoned three individuals.

The White Home additionally launched a collection of workforce improvement and job coaching applications to assist these presently imprisoned or who’re just lately launched.