TAYLOR COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) - Twenty people have been convicted and sentenced for a methamphetamine drug trafficking conspiracy happening in Taylor County and nearby areas.
The U.S. Department of Justice reports that all individuals convicted will be serving long-term sentences and were charged in a series of indictments returned over the course of 2016.
The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force launched their investigation in the fall of 2014. The investigation included several undercover controlled purchases by law enforcement made during the trafficking conspiracy.
The defendants are:
• Joshua Oneal Faulk, 26, Zephyrhills, Florida, 240 months in prison;
• Robby Lynn Wilson, 36, Perry, Florida, 180 months in prison;
• Camelia Faulk, 49, Zephyrhills, Florida, 144 months in prison (84 months from the
Northern District consecutive to 60 months from the Middle District of Florida);
• Fairley Trey Pitts, 31, Perry, Florida, 108 months in prison;
• Cody Aaron Jacobs, 26, Perry, Florida, 108 months in prison;
• Darrius Demond Beasley, 26, Perry, Florida, 101 months in prison;
• Kendall Lamar Smith, 29, Perry, Florida, 66 months in prison;
• Micah Todd Archer, 34, Perry, Florida, 60 months in prison;
• George Kevin Cook, 40, Perry, Florida, 60 months in prison;
• Craig Michael Hathcock, 47, Tallahassee, Florida, 60 months in prison;
• Bryan Joseph Bowden, 29, Perry, Florida, 48 months in prison;
• Dewey Randall Bright, Jr., 39, Perry, Florida, 48 months in prison;
• Nicholas Wayne Pharr, 35, Perry, Florida, 48 months in prison;
• Corey James Rucker, 22, Perry, Florida, 48 months in prison consecutive to 27 months in
state prison;
• Christopher Ryan Sessions, 35, Perry, Florida, 48 months in prison;
• James Oglesby Stephens, 53, Perry, Florida, 39 months in prison;
• Lindsay Anne Overstreet, 33, Perry, Florida, 24 months in prison;
• Shanna Nicole Leigh Pittman, 23, Perry, Florida, 24 months in prison;
• Michael Jared Borklund, 30, Perry, Florida, 12 months and 1 day in prison; and
• Calista Bryce Hedricks, 36, Perry, Florida, 1 day in prison.
The investigation was conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Florida Highway Patrol, Leon County Sheriff’s Office, Taylor County Sheriff’s Office, Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office, High Springs Police Department, and with the help of the State Attorney’s Offices in Taylor, Lafayette, and Alachua counties.
