Recidivist Drug Dealer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for a Bulk Methamphetamine-Trafficking Conspiracy

MOBILE, AL – A Bay Minette man was sentenced to 120 months in prison for taking part in a conspiracy to distribute bulk methamphetamine.

According to court documents, Ladarrius Markeil Fields, 30, pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine between October 2024 and December 2024. On December 9, 2024, narcotics investigators received information that a bulk methamphetamine deal was going to occur at a truck stop in Whistler. Agents attempted to conduct a traffic stop of Fields’s vehicle near the truck stop, but Fields reversed out of a parking lot and drove away. As he did so, Fields threw a large bag of methamphetamine from his vehicle into a drainage ditch before coming to a stop. Agents arrested Fields and recovered the bag that he discarded, which contained nearly a pound of methamphetamine packaged in five separate baggies.

Agents then interviewed Fields, who admitted that he had bought a pound of methamphetamine from a supplier with whom he had previously served prison time. Fields has several prior convictions for possession and distribution of narcotics and was released from Alabama state prison in mid-2024.

Fields said that on December 8, 2024, he had met his supplier at a gas station near Meaher Avenue in Prichard. Fields said the supplier had accidentally given him the wrong bag, so Fields came to the truck stop to switch out the drugs the next day. Fields said he had been buying bulk methamphetamine from his supplier for roughly two months and had secured one to two pounds of methamphetamine on about 15 separate occasions. At one point during his interview, Fields said, “Y’all caught me bro, red handed.”

In addition to the 120-month prison sentence, Senior U.S. District Judge William H. Steele ordered Fields to serve a five-year term of supervised release upon his release from prison, during which time he will be subject to drug testing and treatment. The court did not impose a fine, but Judge Steele ordered Fields to pay a total of $100 in special assessments.

U.S. Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama made the announcement.

Homeland Security Investigations and the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Justin Roller prosecuted the case on behalf of the United States.

This prosecution was part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The HSTF is a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad. Through historic interagency collaboration, the HSTF directs the full might of United States law enforcement towards identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the full spectrum of crimes committed by these organizations, which have long fueled violence and instability within our borders. In performing this work, the HSTF places special emphasis on investigating and prosecuting those engaged in child trafficking or other crimes involving children. The HSTF further utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States. HSTF Mobile comprises agents and officers from, among others, Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, with the prosecution being led by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama.