FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	CONTACT: Lauren Horwood
March 4, 2011	PHONE: (916) 554-2706
www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae	usacae.edcapress@usdoj.gov
Docket #: 2:07-cr-00141-WBS

SACRAMENTO Calif. — United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that today a federal jury found Anthony Boykin, 36, of Yuba City, guilty of methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking, following a six-day trial before United States District Judge William B. Shubb.

According to testimony presented at trial, Boykin and his brother Patrick Boykin arranged and sold of methamphetamine and cocaine to several police informants between September 13, 2006 and March 29, 2007 in Yuba City. Patrick Boykin pleaded guilty and was sentenced on October 5, 2009 to 17 and a half years.

This case is the product of an extensive investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Yuba-Sutter County NET-5 Drug Task Force. Assistant United States Attorneys Heiko P. Coppola and Matthew Morris are prosecuting the case.

Boykin is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Shubb on May 31, 2011, at 8:30 a.m. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. The actual sentence, however, will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables.

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