Five indicted in methamphetamine distribution case
A federal indictment filed in a Texarkana, Texas, federal court in May and unsealed this month accuses four men and a woman of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
The indictment naming Stinson Lesley, Wesley Haley, Norman Spruiell, Melvin Smith and Laura Pace was filed May 31 in the Texarkana Division of the Eastern District of Texas. The case was not unsealed until July 5, at the time of Smith’s initial court appearance and arraignment.
Smith was the last of the defendants to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven for arraignment. Lesley appeared May 31, Spruiell appeared June 14, Pace appeared June 19 and
Haley appeared June 20. All five defendants are accused of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in the indictment’s only count.
All five have entered pleas of not guilty and all remain in the custody of federal marshals. According to the indictment, the alleged misconduct began in March 2016 and continued until the time of the indictment in May.
All of the defendants are scheduled for trial Aug. 27 before U.S. District Judge Robert Schroeder III in Texarkana’s downtown federal building.
A notice on the docket sheet for the defendants indicates the case is related to another methamphetamine distribution case filed in April 2017, which remains under seal because not all of the defendants have been arrested. That indictment alleges conspiracy to distribute meth and includes at least eight defendants.
The first defendant’s name remains unknown, the second is Daniel Enrique Montes-Munoz, the third defendant is unknown, the fourth is Timothy Franklin Harper, the fifth Jason Wayne McLemore and the sixth and seventh defendants are unknown. Gerald Clinton Davis is listed as the eighth defendant.
McLemore, 40, was sentenced in February to 12 years in federal prison at a hearing before Schroeder. A factual basis in McLemore’s case alleges he distributed meth in bulk in the Mount Pleasant, Texas, area after acquiring the drug from a supplier in the Dallas area beginning in June 2016.
Montes-Munoz, Harper and Davis have entered pleas of guilty to conspiracy to distribute meth and are awaiting sentencing. The factual basis documents for all four defendants in the 2017 indictment allege distribution of large amounts of methamphetamine acquired in Dallas and other areas and distributed in the Mount Pleasant area.