Texas Man Sentenced to Over 9 Years in Prison for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Cocaine

Jackson, Mississippi – A Houston, Texas man was sentenced to 109 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.

Juan Angel Gonzalez, 50, was sentenced in U.S. District Court on November 1, 2023.

According to court documents, in August 2019, Gonzalez conspired with others, including Kendrick Kenyon Davis, 45, of Amite, Louisiana, and Jimario Juvonca Holmes, 35, of Louisville, Mississippi, to distribute cocaine.  During the investigation, agents learned that Gonzalez and Davis negotiated the delivery of kilogram quantities of cocaine, and that Davis had elicited the assistance of Holmes to pick up narcotics from Gonzalez in Houston, Texas and bring them back to Mississippi for distribution.

Ultimately, agents observed Davis meet with Holmes in Mississippi, then travel to Houston, where he met Gonzalez in a parking lot. Davis was later stopped in Beaumont, Texas for a traffic violation. Officers searched Davis’s vehicle, finding over 2 kilograms of cocaine, 172 pounds of marijuana, and a Taurus handgun with 10 rounds and one chambered.    

Codefendants Davis and Holmes entered a plea of guilty and will be sentenced on December 14, 2023. 

U.S. Attorney Todd W. Gee of the Southern District of Mississippi and Acting Special Agent in Charge Eric DeLaune of Homeland Security Investigations made the announcement.   

The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations in Jackson and Houston, Drug Enforcement Administration, Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, Kemper County Sheriff’s Office, Neshoba County Sheriff’s Office, Philadelphia Police Department, Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, Mississippi National Guard Counterdrug Task Force, and the  Beaumont (Texas) Police Department. 

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Keesha Middleton.

The case is the result of an extensive investigation targeting illegal drug trafficking in Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Mississippi, and surrounding areas. The case is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) investigation. OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the highest-level drug traffickers, money launderers, gangs, and transnational criminal organizations that threaten the United States by using a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach that leverages the strengths of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies against criminal networks.