News (Media Awareness Project) - US GA: Two Expected To Plead Guilty In Drug Case |
| Title: | US GA: Two Expected To Plead Guilty In Drug Case |
| Published On: | 2001-10-31 |
| Source: | Macon Telegraph (GA) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-25 05:45:31 |
TWO EXPECTED TO PLEAD GUILTY IN DRUG CASE
MACON - Two more defendants are expected to plead guilty today in one of Middle Georgia's largest Ecstasy cases. Defendants John Brian Highsmith and Brian Allen Davis are scheduled to enter guilty pleas in federal court today to charges of conspiracy to possess, with the intent to distribute the illegal drug Ecstasy, according to documents from the federal clerk's office in Macon.
A third co-defendant, Vance Williams Laws of Warner Robins, pleaded guilty Friday to the same charge. U.S. Attorney's spokeswoman Pamela Lightsey said he will be sentenced within 60 days. She did not know how much prison time Laws could be facing.
The guilty pleas come just weeks before the defendants were supposed to stand trial in what investigators have called "one of the biggest Ecstasy cases in the state."
Houston County Sheriff's Sgt. E.M. Quinones Jr. said Tuesday that he did not have specific information about the pleas, but did know that Highsmith was expected to enter a guilty plea in the case.
The three men were indicted along with a Warner Robins couple earlier this year on charges they were running a drug ring operating throughout Georgia and along the Florida Panhandle. The investigation, involving the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the FBI and the Houston County Sheriff's Department, involved investigators tapping the Harrisons' phone line and tracking their every move across the state.
Reuben Westee "Wes" Harrison and Anastasia "Stacey" Knight Harrison are expected to go on trial Nov. 26 on the same charges, Lightsey said. At the time of their arrests, Wes Harrison was an assistant principal at Macon County High School in Montezuma and Stacey Harrison was a teacher at a Lizella elementary school.
Bibb County school officials said Stacey Harrison remains on administrative leave while the case is pending. Macon County school officials did not return phone calls for comment Tuesday evening.
Officials believe the couple were major Ecstasy dealers. At the time of their arrest in May, agents seized $15,000 in cash, five vehicles and 625 tablets of suspected Ecstasy.
Quinones said Laws was one of the Harrisons' dealers, but could not comment on what Highsmith and Davis' roles were in the alleged ring.
Also listed on the indictment in this case are Brian Jones, Heath Davis, Michael Curevich and Jose Luis Torres. They are all scheduled for trial Nov. 26.
MACON - Two more defendants are expected to plead guilty today in one of Middle Georgia's largest Ecstasy cases. Defendants John Brian Highsmith and Brian Allen Davis are scheduled to enter guilty pleas in federal court today to charges of conspiracy to possess, with the intent to distribute the illegal drug Ecstasy, according to documents from the federal clerk's office in Macon.
A third co-defendant, Vance Williams Laws of Warner Robins, pleaded guilty Friday to the same charge. U.S. Attorney's spokeswoman Pamela Lightsey said he will be sentenced within 60 days. She did not know how much prison time Laws could be facing.
The guilty pleas come just weeks before the defendants were supposed to stand trial in what investigators have called "one of the biggest Ecstasy cases in the state."
Houston County Sheriff's Sgt. E.M. Quinones Jr. said Tuesday that he did not have specific information about the pleas, but did know that Highsmith was expected to enter a guilty plea in the case.
The three men were indicted along with a Warner Robins couple earlier this year on charges they were running a drug ring operating throughout Georgia and along the Florida Panhandle. The investigation, involving the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the FBI and the Houston County Sheriff's Department, involved investigators tapping the Harrisons' phone line and tracking their every move across the state.
Reuben Westee "Wes" Harrison and Anastasia "Stacey" Knight Harrison are expected to go on trial Nov. 26 on the same charges, Lightsey said. At the time of their arrests, Wes Harrison was an assistant principal at Macon County High School in Montezuma and Stacey Harrison was a teacher at a Lizella elementary school.
Bibb County school officials said Stacey Harrison remains on administrative leave while the case is pending. Macon County school officials did not return phone calls for comment Tuesday evening.
Officials believe the couple were major Ecstasy dealers. At the time of their arrest in May, agents seized $15,000 in cash, five vehicles and 625 tablets of suspected Ecstasy.
Quinones said Laws was one of the Harrisons' dealers, but could not comment on what Highsmith and Davis' roles were in the alleged ring.
Also listed on the indictment in this case are Brian Jones, Heath Davis, Michael Curevich and Jose Luis Torres. They are all scheduled for trial Nov. 26.
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