DAD CONVICTED OF RUNNING MAJOR COCAINE ORGANIZATION

A Walnut Creek father who lived as a family man in an upscale suburban
neighborhood was convicted Friday of heading a multimillion-dollar
drug ring that trafficked in hundreds of pounds of cocaine.

Kevin Lee Davis shook his head slightly as the clerk for U.S. District
Court Judge D. Lowell Jensen read through verdict after verdict
fingering the 32-year-old man as a major West Coast cocaine supplier.

Davis was convicted of 88 counts from a weighty indictment in 1999
naming nearly two dozen defendants connected to the operation that
federal prosecutors believed was launched in 1993.

Charges included running a continuing criminal enterprise and
possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.