News Release
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
District of Rhode Island
June 26, 2009
Indictment Charges Two Men with Crack Cocaine Sales
Keywion Brown, 19 of Providence and Keishon Johnson, 19 of Warwick, were indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base, four counts of distributing cocaine base, and one count of possessing with intent to distribute cocaine base .
United States Attorney Robert Clark Corrente and Mark Curtin, Resident Agent in Charge of the Providence Office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”), announced the five count indictment which was returned against the pair on June 3, 2009, in U.S. District Court in Providence. Both defendants were ordered detained without bail pending trial in separate proceedings before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lincoln D. Almond.
If convicted, each defendant faces a maximum term of life imprisonment with a ten year mandatory minimum and a $4,000,000 fine. ATF and the Providence Police Department investigated the case and it is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard W. Rose.
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