Two Wiregrass men get 4 years in prison on cocaine charges

A federal judge recently sentenced a Samson man to serve about four and a half years in prison for his involvement in a drug conspiracy that distributed more than two kilos of cocaine across the Wiregrass.

Federal court records show Johnny Lorenzo Pope, 31, of Samson, was sentenced to serve four and half years for the conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and four years each for two counts of using a phone to distribute a controlled substance. The sentences Pope received for the three charges were to be served concurrently not consecutively.

Federal records also show a judge sentenced 34-year-old Michael Dangelo Hobdy, of Troy, last week handing him four years in federal prison for the conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance.

Eleven people were charged by the federal government in the cocaine distribution conspiracy case, including four of which have yet to be sentenced in court.
Lydia Ann Cade, 34, of Samson, and Alfred Bernard Jones, 34, of Enterprise, both have pleaded guilty to their involvement, and will be sentenced next month.
Federal records show Maurice Odell Kemmerlin, 34, of Geneva, and 27-year-old Lashonda Patrice Jones, of Daleville, will be sentenced in November.

William Charles Duff, 31, of Samson, already received a 12-year sentence after he’d pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and four counts of using a phone to distribute a controlled substance.

Naku Fluellen, 28, of Enterprise, Hasan Rasheed Abdullah, 37, of Grady, and Antioco Cabrera-Geronimo, 30, of Enterprise, also have been sentenced to serve time in prison as part of the drug distribution conspiracy.

Federal Investigators are still looking for Fernando Valencia-Zavala, who last lived in the Enterprise area.
Agents believe Valencia-Zavala, who they say was the source of supply, has likely fled to Mexico.