{"id":2424,"date":"2019-12-13T18:14:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T00:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2019-12-13T23:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T05:23:27","slug":"nolan-county-meth-meltdown-sentencing-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/nolan-county-meth-meltdown-sentencing-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"“Nolan County Meth Meltdown” – Sentencing Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On Wednesday,\nDecember 11, 2019, the 32nd<\/sup> Judicial District Court sent a very\nstrong message to those who choose to poison our community with illegal drugs,\nby sentencing a prolific supplier of Methamphetamine and Heroin to a total of 90\nyears in a Texas prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zackary\nDewayne McDonald, 35, of Coleman, pled guilty for his role in an organized\ncrime ring, dedicated to the sale of illegal drugs in Nolan County. McDonald\nwas arrested, as part of a joint investigation involving Nolan County Sheriff\u2019s\nOffice \u2013 Criminal Investigations Division, Texas Department of Public Safety \u2013\nCriminal Investigations Division (Abilene) and Investigators with the 32nd<\/sup>\nJudicial District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\nbegan bringing drugs into our community sometime in April of 2018 when he would\nbring in approximately two ounces of methamphetamine every other day. This\namount quickly increased to a pound a week and eventually to two pounds a week.\nIn addition to the methamphetamine, McDonald was also bringing in an ounce of\nheroin every three to four days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigators\ncaught wind of McDonald\u2019s activity on September 13, 2018, and immediately began\nan extensive investigation. This investigation led to the arrest of McDonald,\nsix days later, on September 19, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through\ninvestigation, it was discovered that McDonald was the main source of supply of\nmethamphetamine and heroin for Matthew Lee McQueen II, 28, and his girlfriend,\nSierra Cheyann Jones, 24, both of Sweetwater, who would then disburse the\nillegal drugs into our communities. The couple at the time were two of the most\nprominent drug dealers in Nolan County, but their activities would come to an\nabrupt end after being arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McDonald was eventually\nreleased on bond, after his arrest, so the investigation into his illegal\nactivities continued. McDonald was placed under surveillance, which resulted in\nhis arrest again on November 14, 2018, when he was headed to Sweetwater with\napproximately 11 ounces of methamphetamine. After this arrest, McDonald\nadmitted to investigators that since his release on bond in September, he had made\nan additional three or four trips to Sweetwater, bringing in approximately a\n1\/4 pound of methamphetamine each time, to McQueen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Estimated\nquantities of methamphetamine that McDonald brought into Nolan County, based on\nhis own admission are in the range of 22 pounds, an estimated street value of\napproximately $211,200.00. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of the Nolan County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Texas Department of Public Safety (Abilene) and Investigators with the 32nd<\/sup> Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office began a sweep of 25 defendants who helped move or sell methamphetamine and heroin in the Nolan County community and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of\nthis joint investigation, Matthew Lee McQueen II was arrested on January 8,\n2019, and Sierra Cheyann Jones was arrested on January 10, 2019. McQueen pled\nguilty and would go on to be sentenced to 54 years in a Texas prison and Jones\npled guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in a Texas prison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also arrested\nin part of this organized crime ring were, Eric Acosta, Lizette Ann Acosta,\nChance Brooke Benson, Charles Ray Carrington, Daniel Lee Cosby, Jason Lee\nCosby, Arnulfo Delgado, Adam Martin Garza, Shawn Lucas Garza, Christopher\nJoseph Hamm, Jody Shane Jones, Moses Jacob Lara, Michael Alan Ledbetter, Katie\nLouise McQueen, Curtis Mathis Mahula III, Douglas James Monday, Michael David\nMorgan, Mark Randall Murry, James Allen Parker, Francisco Javier Pena, Tyler\nScott Polk, Monica Rodriguez and Helena Jade Tollison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sergio Salinas, 26, of Dallas who was the main source of supply to Zackary McDonald was arrested in Nolan County on November 9, 2019, along with his brother, Jose Alberto Salinas, 20, also of Dallas. The brothers were in possession of over a pound of methamphetamine, destined for Sweetwater, Texas. Sergio Salinas is currently in Federal custody, and his brother, Alberto was released on bond. Both are pending judicial process in Nolan County for engaging in organized criminal activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the 28\ndefendants, 16 have been adjudicated. All cases in this investigation that have\nbeen resolved have yielded over 200 years of Texas prison sentences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same team\nof investigators and agents had recently dismantled several other drug\ndistribution organizations within Nolan County, which resulted in numerous\narrests. The defendants in these arrests received sentences exceeding 300 years\ncombined, in Texas prisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are other illegal organizations in Nolan County that are currently being targeted and like all the others, they too will be dismantled.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, December 11, 2019, the 32nd Judicial District Court sent a very strong message to those who choose to poison our community with illegal drugs, by sentencing a prolific supplier of Methamphetamine and Heroin to a total of 90 years in a Texas prison. Zackary Dewayne McDonald, 35, of Coleman, pled guilty for his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nolanso.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}