Trio sentenced to federal prison for mailing PCP, meth from California to Cleveland suburbs

CLEVELAND, Ohio— Three males have been sentenced to federal jail for his or her roles in a drug-dealing scheme wherein one of many males mailed packages of PCP and methamphetamine to 2 sellers in Cleveland suburbs.

Eric D. Owens, 39, of Compton, California; Nathan Stewart, 40, of North Olmsted; and Dawuan Williams, 47, of Cleveland Heights; all pleaded responsible to federal drug trafficking fees.

U.S. District Decide Donald Nugent on Monday sentenced Owens to eight-and-a-half years in jail and Stewart to 6 years in jail. Nugent beforehand sentenced Williams to seven years.

U.S. Postal Inspectors in Could 2020 started investigating the shipments after they discovered three packages Owens despatched to Williams that contained a mixed three gallons of PCP. The medication have been hidden inside Klean Strip acetone containers, based on court docket data.

Undercover inspectors delivered the packages — to Williams’ neighbor’s dwelling on East Derbyshire Highway, to a different on Blanche Highway and a 3rd to a house on Sutton Drive in Shaker Heights.

Inspectors carried out surveillance on Williams and watched him decide up the 2 drug packages in Cleveland Heights. Inspectors arrested him later within the day, and he admitted that he had deliberate to select up the bundle delivered to the house in Shaker Heights.

In February and March 2021, inspectors discovered two packages despatched by Owens to Stewart in North Olmsted and Westlake that contained a complete of two kilos of meth.

Stewart is a husband and father of two, who turned to drug dealing when he fell on arduous monetary occasions, his lawyer, Tyresha Brown-O’Neal, wrote in court docket filings.

Owens, a father of two, most lately labored as a fork-lift operator in California, and he had beforehand been shot within the hand and run over by a automotive, based on court docket filings by his Michigan lawyer, Mohammed Nasser. Neither Owens nor Stewart had a previous felony file, based on the filings.

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