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TWO COVINGTON RESIDENTS SENTENCED TO FEDERAL PRISON
November 29, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JERMAINE BRUMFIELD, age 36, and ALPHA GALLOWAY, age 68, both of Covington, Louisiana, were sentenced yesterday by U. S. District Judge Carl Barbier to federal imprisonment terms for failing to report their knowledge of a murder-for-hire scheme, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten.
BRUMFIELD was sentenced to thirty-six (36) months imprisonment and a term of five (5) years of supervised release; and GALLOWAY was sentenced to twenty-seven (27) months imprisonment and one (1) year term of supervised released. During the supervised release terms, the defendants will be under federal supervision and each risks an additional term of imprisonment should he or she violate any terms of supervised release. Both defendants pled guilty in August, 2007 to having knowledge of a felony offense, specifically the use of interstate facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire prior to July, 2006 and failing to report same.
BRUMFIELD was sentenced by Judge Barbier to an additional term of imprisonment of one hundred twenty-one (121) months for a separate scheme to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride.
After sentencing, GALLOWAY and BRUMFIELD were remanded to the custody of the United States Marshal’s Service to immediately begin their terms of imprisonment.
According to the court record, BRUMFIELD and GALLOWAY were arrested on October 22, 2006, by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, following an investigation into a murder-for-hire scheme concocted by Michael “Mickey” Abdella. Michael Abdella died shortly after being placed in federal custody. During the investigation, agents became aware that BRUMFIELD and another defendant Carl Dwight Roscoe, 41, a resident of Slidell, Louisiana, were also involved in attempting to secure cocaine hydrochloride for resale. Roscoe is scheduled to be sentenced for his role in the drug scheme on January 23, 2008.
This investigation was conducted by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Assistant U. S. Attorneys who worked hard to achieve this conviction. The prosecution was handled by Assistant United States Attorney Tony Gordon Sanders.
