United States Attorney Richard B. Roper
Northern District of Texas

FORT WORTH MAN SENTENCED TO 27 ½ YEARS
IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR METHAMPHETAMINE CONVICTION

FORT WORTH, Texas — Stephen Herman Blevins was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor to 330 months (27 1/2 years) in prison, following his guilty plea in September 2007 to possession with intent to distribute a schedule II controlled substance, announced U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper of the Northern District of Texas. Blevins, 58, has been in custody since his arrest on September 1, 2006, on related charges filed in a federal criminal complaint.

On August 31, 2006, investigators with the Fort Worth Police Department established surveillance on Blevins’ co-defendant, Holly Michele Moore, at her residence. The investigators then followed Moore’s black Toyota, which she and another female occupied, to Ridgmar Mall in Fort Worth, where they observed Moore meet Blevins and conduct what appeared to be a drug transaction. Later that day, an officer with the Fort Worth Police Department conducted a traffic stop on Blevins’ black Ford pickup truck and asked Blevins if he would allow officers to search his truck. Blevins refused so the officer requested that a drug-detection dog be brought to the location. The dog walked around Blevins’ vehicle and had positive alerts, so a search was conducted. During the search, officers found approximately four pounds of methamphetamine.

Holly Michele Moore, also pled guilty in September 2007 to the same offense and was sentenced in January 2008 to 24 months in prison. Another co-defendant in the case, Patricia Lewis Clamon, a/k/a Patricia Lewis and a/k/a Patricia Blevins, also pled guilty to the same offense and was sentenced in September 2007 to 188 months (more than 15 years) in prison. Clamon, 44, was arrested during a traffic stop in November 2006 in Fort Worth, and after her arrest, officers searched her vehicle and discovered 180 gross grams of methamphetamine, 38.5 gross grams of cocaine, 100 gross grams of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and nearly $10,000 in U.S. currency.

U.S. Attorney praised the investigative efforts of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Fort Worth Police Department. The case was prosecuted by Deputy Criminal Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Nichols and Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex C. Lewis.

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