EVANSVILLE CRACK DEALERS SENTENCED

Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced that TREVOR PERRY, 31, Evansville, Indiana, was sentenced to 327 months, and KAMAL SIMS, 24, Evansville, Indiana was sentenced to 240 months imprisonment yesterday by U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young following their conviction at trial for conspiracy to distribute cocaine base. This case was the result of a five-month investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and the Evansville Police Department.

PERRY and SIMS were mid-level distributors for a crack cocaine trafficking organization that distributed approximately 4 kilograms of crack cocaine from May 2007 through August 29, 2007. DAVID NEIGHBORS, the leader of this organization, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday.

According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Bradley A. Blackington, who prosecuted the case for the government, Judge Young also imposed five years supervised release following PERRY's release from imprisonment and ten years supervised release following SIMS' release from imprisonment. During their periods of supervised release, PERRY and SIMS will be subjected to random urinalysis and random searches of their persons, vehicles, and residences.