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Date: 01-07-2024
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United States of America v. Brandon Keeling
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Judge: Unknown
Court: The United States Court for Western District of Kentucky (Jefferson County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: The United States Attorney’s Office in Louisville
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Louisville, Kentucky Criminal Defense Lawyer represented the Defendant drug trafficking and felony possession of a firearm.
Louisville, KY – A local man was sentenced yesterday to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison for methamphetamine and fentanyl trafficking offenses and for being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
U.S. Attorney Michael A. Bennett of the Western District of Kentucky, Special Agent in Charge J. Todd Scott of the DEA Louisville Field Division, and U.S. Marshal Gary B. Burman of the U.S. Marshals Service, Western District of Kentucky, made the announcement.
Brandon Keeling, 39, was sentenced to 17 years and 6 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Keeling was prohibited from possessing a firearm because he had previously been convicted of the following felony offenses. On February 21, 2018, in Jefferson Circuit Court, he was convicted of complicity to trafficking methamphetamine, fleeing or evading police in the first degree, wanton endangerment in first degree, and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. On January 21, 2018, in Jefferson Circuit Court, he was convicted of complicity to trafficking cocaine.
This case was investigated by the DEA and the U.S. Marshals Service with assistance from the ATF.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert B. Bonar prosecuted the case.
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 17 years and 6 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release
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