Man bound for prison in trafficking
A man who used the U.S. mail in the trafficking of large quantities of methamphetamine was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison Thursday by a federal judge in Texarkana.
Tacorrius Marquan Jordan, 26, appeared for sentencing early Thursday afternoon with Federal Public Defender Kenneth Hawk before U.S. District Judge Robert Schroeder III. Jordan pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine last year.
Jordan was arrested in May 2016 after a narcotics detection canine alerted on a package being sent from California to an address in the 100 block of Washington Street in Hooks, Texas, according to a factual basis filed in Jordan’s case. Investigators determined the package contained methamphetamine and conducted a controlled delivery of the package.
About 20 minutes after a man arrived at the house and took the parcel inside, a black BMW sports utility vehicle arrived. Jordan went into the house while leaving the car running.
Investigators immediately executed a search warrant on the house. Jordan declined to speak but the home’s owner told investigators that Jordan was paying him to use his address for package deliveries and claimed he did not know what the parcels contained. The homeowner, who is not named in the indictment charging Jordan, said he had accepted five previous packages for Jordan.
Cell phone evidence showed that the man who took possession of the package called Jordan shortly after it was delivered and that Jordan had been tracking the package on his phone just before he arrived at the Hooks residence.
The U.S. Postal Service Forensic Laboratory determined the package contained 2,229.9 grams of methamphetamine which was 97.6 percent pure. The approximately five pounds of meth was mailed to Jordan from Keith Gerard Doucette, 25, of Carson, California.
Doucette is named as a defendant in the indictment charging Jordan. Doucette’s case has been transferred to the Central District of California and remains pending.
At Jordan’s sentencing hearing, Hawk noted that members of Jordan’s family came to court to support him and described Jordan as “digging himself enough holes to almost get to China.” Hawk said he believes the pressure placed on Jordan by his family, by others and eventually the law have motivated him to change.
Hawk said he asked Jordan to answer two questions while in court Thursday: What have you learned and what are you going to do?
Jordan said that while he was making “easy money” he understands there are consequences.
“I’m going to look at this as a blessing in disguise,” Jordan said, promising to take advantage of vocational classes and training in the Bureau of Prisons which may enable him to someday earn an honest living.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ben Wulff described Jordan as “not a minor dealer” and “high up in the chain.”
Schroeder encouraged Jordan to take advantage of all the programs he may be offered while in prison and agreed to recommend placement in an intensive drug treatment program. Jordan received credit for the time he spent in jail since his May 18, 2016, arrest.