During a lapse in federal government funding, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma continued its work prosecuting cases involving dangerous drugs and violent crimes. Several sentencings in unrelated cases were finalized during this period.
Breon Monte Bellamy, 36, from Lawton, received a sentence of 156 months in federal prison and six years of supervised release for distributing fentanyl and conspiracy to distribute drugs. Public records show that on August 21, 2023, Bellamy sold fentanyl at a casino in Lawton to Reecy Ann Bench, who then gave some of the drug to Joanie Ann Wilson at the same location. Investigators believe that part of this fentanyl was distributed further and contributed to a death caused by fentanyl and methamphetamine toxicity on August 23, 2023. Both Bench and Wilson had previously pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy charges; Bench was sentenced to 42 months and Wilson to 54 months in federal prison, each with three years of supervised release.
Andres Michi Gentry, 20, from Purcell, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison with three years of supervised release for possessing an unregistered firearm. On April 2, 2024, Gentry assaulted a victim at their home and fired at Purcell Police Department officers responding to the incident. After his arrest, police found a modified shotgun at his residence.
Mario Manzo, 39, from California, received a sentence of 37 months for assaulting a federal officer while incarcerated at the Federal Transfer Center (FTC) in Oklahoma City. At the time of the incident on August 29, 2023, Manzo was already serving a five-year sentence for importing methamphetamine.
Philbert Quentin McCoy Jr., 23, from Dallas, Texas, was sentenced to serve 147 months followed by three years’ supervised release for possessing black-market marijuana with intent to distribute and possessing a firearm related to drug trafficking. According to records, McCoy was repeatedly arrested in Oklahoma while transporting large quantities of marijuana. In January 2024 he was stopped with over 80 kilograms of marijuana and cash; later that year he fled police at a stash house used for storing marijuana before being apprehended with more drugs and money.
Four individuals—Adam Rouse (33), Brendan Shane Holder (32), Damion Blair Bradley George (31), and Kristopher Hauser (32)—all from Oklahoma City were collectively sentenced to over 520 months for maiming related to racketeering activities tied to the Irish Mob Gang. The group engaged in various criminal activities including drug distribution and violence. According to court documents: “for purposes of gaining entrance to and maintaining and increasing their position within the Irish Mob Gang,” Rouse and Holder severed a victim’s finger with a hatchet; Holder, George, and Hauser participated in burning off another victim’s tattoo using a heated machete. Rouse received a sentence of nine years; Holder ten years; George fifteen years; Hauser ten years—all followed by three-year terms of supervised release.
Stephen Scherer, age 46 from Oklahoma City received twenty years in federal prison plus five years’ supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine as well as being a felon in possession of a firearm. On September 27, 2024 police discovered nearly four kilograms of methamphetamine along with fentanyl pills at Scherer’s hotel room base for drug operations. Scherer has prior felony convictions involving larceny and drug offenses.
Bruce Lawayne Talley Jr., age forty from Oklahoma City was sentenced to eleven years plus five years’ supervision after being convicted for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. On July 12th last year Talley led police on a high-speed chase before being apprehended near where officers recovered over seven hundred grams of fentanyl pills.
Ladon Trevaughn Turner (33) also from Oklahoma City received just under twelve years’ imprisonment followed by three years’ supervision after being convicted as felon illegally possessing firearms—including an illegal machinegun conversion device—following involvement in a shootout on January first this year in Bricktown.
Xavier Jordan Whiteside (28) from Odessa Texas was sentenced to five years plus three additional under supervision after pleading guilty as felon illegally possessing firearms following an incident where police responded on domestic violence call discovering loaded gun hidden at his residence.
These prosecutions resulted from investigations conducted by multiple agencies including FBI Oklahoma City Field Office; Drug Enforcement Administration; Homeland Security Investigations; Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives; Federal Bureau Prisons; state narcotics bureau; highway patrols; city police departments; county sheriff offices among others.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Elizabeth M. Bagwell,Tiffany Edgmon Stephen Hoch Elizabeth Joynes David McCrary Mary E Walters,and Special Assistant U.S.Attorney Laney Ellis prosecuted these cases.
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