Nikias Bradley, 38, from Lancaster, TX, was sentenced on July 30, 2012, in District Court in East St. Louis, IL, on one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.

Bradley was sentenced to 108 months in prison, five years of supervised release, fined $500 and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment. Bradley, who had previously pled guilty, admitted that between 2005, and 2010, he arranged for the transportation of kilogram quantities of cocaine from Texas to co-conspirator Justin Wiley in Brooklyn, Illinois, typically providing it to another coconspirator Stanley Bates at Bradley’s place of residence in Texas. Bates would then transport the kilograms of cocaine to Wiley, hidden in spare tires of rental vehicles. Bradley distributed in excess of five kilograms of cocaine to various customers within the Southern District of Illinois.

The investigation was conducted under the auspices of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), with the Drug Enforcement Administration as the lead agency. The OCDETF initiative is designed to bring federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and resources together to identify, target and dismantle large national and international drug trafficking organizations.

This was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Daniel T. Kapsak.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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