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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
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HOUSTON WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO DRUG CONSPIRACY
SPRINGFIELD, MA - A Houston, Texas woman was in federal court of Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine.
United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks and Steven Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration - Boston Field Division, announced that BRENDA GOOD, age 50, of Houston, Texas, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor to Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine.
At the plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that had the case proceeded to trial the Government’s evidence would have proven that GOOD managed and directed a conspiracy to obtain 10 kilograms of cocaine from a source in Texas and to distribute the drugs in Springfield and Western Massachusetts.
Judge Ponsor scheduled sentencing for January 19, 2009. GOOD faces up to life imprisonment, to be followed by up to a lifetime of supervised release and a $4 million fine.
The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex J. Grant and Michelle Dineen Jerrett of Loucks’ Springfield Branch Unit.
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