Edwards Man Pleads Guilty to Methamphetamine Trafficking

Jackson, Miss – Daniel Chad Parrette, of Edwards, pled guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan to possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst.

On March 30, 2018, MBN agents received information that Parrette was attempting to sell methamphetamine.  Based upon this information, as well as the agents’ observations, agents made a traffic stop on Parrette’s truck and confronted Parrette.  Agents searched Parrette’s ruck and found four individually wrapped bags of methamphetamine.  In a subsequent interview, Parrette told agents that he wanted to sell the methamphetamine.

On April 3, 2019, Parrette was charged in a federal indictment with possession with intent to distribute a substance containing methamphetamine.   He will be sentenced by Judge Jordan on February 21, 2020 and faces a statutory penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.

The case was investigated by the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Bert Carraway.