Eufaula Woman Sentenced To 72 Months, Eufaula Man And Checotah Woman Sentenced To 21 Months For Drug Conspiracy

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that KERENSA KAELENE MARA, age 38 and MARQUIS WAYNE BRANDT a/k/a Mark Brandt, age 40, both of Eufaula, Oklahoma and REBEL LYNN CRABTREE, age 47, of Checotah, Oklahoma, were sentenced for Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846.

The defendants were sentenced as follows:

                    BRANDT:  21 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.

                    CRABTREE:  21 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.

                    MARA:  72 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.

Charges arose from an investigation by the Navarro County Sheriff’s Department in Texas, the District 18 District Attorney’s Drug Task Force, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General.  The defendants were indicted in July, 2015 and pled guilty in August, 2015.

The Indictment alleged that beginning in or about October 2014 and continuing to in or about January 2015, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma and elsewhere, the defendants knowingly and intentionally agreed together, with each other, and with other persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to illegally obtain Schedule II and IV controlled substances by means of presenting fraudulent prescriptions to pharmacies and conspired to possess with intent to distribute and distribute Schedule II and IV controlled substances. 

As part of the conspiracy the defendants would obtain stolen prescription pads, legitimate DEA numbers and copies of doctor’s signatures from the Jack C. Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center, for the purpose of forging prescriptions of controlled substances.  The defendants would recruit people to present those forged prescriptions on their behalf in return for pay and then distribute the fraudulently obtained illegal drugs or trade illegal drugs for other drugs.

The Honorable James H. Payne, District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in Muskogee, presided over the hearings.

Assistant United States Attorney Edward Snow represented the United States.