FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, December 13, 2007
DEMETRIUS WILLIAMS PLEADS GUILTY IN U.S. FEDERAL COURT
Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Missoula on December 12, 2007, before Chief U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, DEMETRIUS WILLIAMS, a 24-year-old resident of Bozeman (formerly of Fairfield, California), pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine. Sentencing is set for April 17, 2008. He is currently detained.
In an Offer of Proof filed by the United States, the government stated it would have proved at trial the following:
Testimony would have been given that between approximately June of 2005 and May of 2007, WILLIAMS was involved in a conspiracy with several other individuals to distribute cocaine in the Bozeman area. Further testimony would have shown that WILLIAMS distributed cocaine to several other drug dealers in the Bozeman area and those drug dealers, in turn, distributed cocaine to others in Bozeman.
WILLIAMS faces possible penalties of a mandatory 10 years in prison and could be sentenced to the maximum of life in prison, a $4,000,000 fine and 5 years supervised release.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph E. Thaggard prosecuted the case for the United States.
The investigation was a cooperative effort between the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Bozeman and the Missouri River Drug Task Force.
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A copy of the Offer of Proof can be obtained by contacting Sally Frank at (406) 247-4638.
