A Stockton man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to manufacture and distribute narcotics, U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert announced.
Kavieo Daeshaun Lee Wiley, 28, pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin, and U-47700 — a synthetic opioid — as well as possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. He was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd.
According to court documents, in May 2019, Wiley sold 4,000 methamphetamine-laced pills to a confidential source at a music studio in Stockton belonging to co-defendant Jamaine Dontae Barnes, 42, also of Stockton.
When agents executed a federal search warrant at the music studio, they encountered Wiley sitting on the floor with his left hand concealed between a sofa and filing cabinet. After giving Wiley repeated commands to display his left hand, an agent quickly approached him, grabbed his left arm and detained him, prosecutors said.
In the area where Wiley’s left hand had been concealed, agents found a loaded assault-style rifle. Throughout that room and the rest of the music studio, agents found large amounts of pills and powders laced with fentanyl and methamphetamine, materials for pressing the powders into pills and a loaded handgun sitting on top of a large bag of methamphetamine-laced pills. Wiley possessed the assault-style rifle and handgun in furtherance of the crime of possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it, prosecutors said.
Barnes and four other co-defendants await sentencing after pleading guilty, and three others have been sentenced, the Department of Justice said.