Operation Green Giant: Two Muskogee Men Sentenced To 132 Months, 120 Months For Drug Conspiracy

"OPERATION GREEN GIANT"

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that KEVIN BERNARD GREEN, age 35, and ELIJAH ALFRED MAYES, JR., age 35, both of Muskogee, Oklahoma were sentenced in federal court.

GREEN was sentenced to 132 months imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release for Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A) and MAYES, JR., was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment, for Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B).

The Indictment alleged that the defendants coordinated and orchestrated the transportation of cocaine from source locations to the Eastern District of Oklahoma and used telephones, cellular and otherwise, to conduct and carry out the organization’s objectives.

The charges arose from a joint investigation by the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, the Muskogee Police Department, the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Department and the United States Marshal Service.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in Muskogee, presided over the hearings.  The defendants will remain in the custody of the United States Marshals Service pending transportation to the designated federal prison at which they will serve their nonparoleable sentences.

Assistant United States Attorney Shannon Henson represented the United States.