Thread: D.O.J. Employee gets 20 Years on Drug & Gun Charges

News Release
Date: August 31, 2011
Contact: SA Melissa Bell
Number: 202-616-4740

Former Department of Justice Employee Sentenced to
Over 20 Years in Prison on Federal Drug and Gun Charges

Defendant Was a Justice Department Legal Assistant in Washington, DC, at Time of Drug Arrest

AUG 31 - GREENBELT , Md. -- U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. sentenced Wilson Lee Garrett, age 37, of Waldorf, Maryland, who was a legal assistant at the Department of Justice when he was arrested in 2009, to serve 248 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and attempted and actual possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ava A. Cooper-Davis. Judge Williams also ordered Garrett to forfeit $100,000, the proceeds of the conspiracy. Garrett was convicted on May 26, 2011, after an eight day jury trial.

The sentence was announced by Special Agent in Charge Ava Cooper-Davis; United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron; Charles County Sheriff Rex Coffey; Chief Mark A. Magaw of the Prince George’s County Police Department; Acting Inspector General Cynthia A. Schnedar of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General; and Special Agent in Charge Richard A. McFeely of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“Mr. Garrett not only broke the law by drug trafficking, he betrayed the trust bestowed upon him by the public,â€

I wonder if this guy was buying is cocaine from the same groups that the Obama administration was using our tax dollars to buy all of those Fast and Furious assault rifles with?

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Makes one wonder how much time eric holder should get for ok-ing the fast and furious sceme and the deathes of 40k mexicans on his shoulders just so him and el'bamma could try to take away the 2nd amendment right