Press Release
Contact:
Maarten Vermaat
ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY
PHONE: (906) 226-2500
LEADER OF CRACK COCAINE TRAFFICKING GROUP
SENTENCED
June 19, 2009 -- (Marquette, MI): Lamont Anthony Hogan, of Troy, Michigan, was sentenced
to serve 262 months, or almost 22 years, in federal prison by U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar,
Donald A. Davis, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, and Lieutenant Jeffrey C.
Racine of the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team (UPSET), announced today.
The UPSET investigation that led to this conviction began in 2004 with reports of crack and powder cocaine trafficking in and around the housing complex associated with the former K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base. The investigation led to a number of convictions in state and federal courts. Previously convicted federal defendants in this case include the following:
- Charles Dalon Abercrombie, age 29, of Detroit, Michigan, sentenced to 97 months in federal prison
- his cousin, Frederick Dawayne Abercrombie, age 33, of Taylor, Michigan, 210 months in federal prison;
- Jessica Lynn Kendall, age 26, of Champion, Michigan, 53 months in federal prison;
- Robert Allen Petrocik, age 50, of Negaunee, Michigan, 120 months in federal prison; and
- Steven Ray Puckett, now deceased, formerly of Gwinn, Michigan, 84 months in federal prison.
Hogan, the ringleader of this group, was indicted in June 2008. He pled guilty to a charge of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base (crack) and more than 500 grams of powder cocaine.
The investigation showed that Hogan was involved in the distribution of powder and crack cocaine beginning in 2004 and continuing into 2007. He obtained these drugs in the Detroit area and then used subordinate runners to make deliveries for him in the Marquette area. The evidence conservatively showed that he was responsible for distributing between 2.5 and 4.5 kilograms of crack and between 2.5 and 4 kilograms of powder cocaine. As a result, Hogan is one of the most significant cocaine dealers in Marquette area history.
Hogan was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Maarten Vermaat.
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