The United States Attorney's Office

NINETEEN YEAR OLD METROPOLIS INDIVIDUAL SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS IN PRISON FOR POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE COCAINE

A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on September 14, 2009, DEMARIO TYRELL DANIELS, age 19, of 505 W. 8 Street, Metropolis,Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court at Benton, Illinois, on a three count indictment charging him in one count with Possession with Intent to Distribute Crack Cocaine and in two counts with Distribution of Crack Cocaine, all in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841(a). DANIELS was sentenced in United States District Court at Benton, Illinois, to 10 years imprisonment on each count, a total of four years of supervised release and $300 in fines. The violations took place on February 18, 2009, November 12, 2008 and October 24, 2007 in Metropolis, Massac County, Illinois.

DANIELS previously plead guilty on June 4, 2009. According to the factual basis at the plea, an undercover informant, working with law enforcement, made purchases of crack cocaine from DANIELS and then law enforcement searched DANIEL’S home and found a quantity of crack which had not yet been distributed.

This case was investigated by the Southern Illinois Drug Task Force and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Assistant United States Attorney Michael C. Carr handled the prosecution.