ASHLAND —
Three defendants in a federal case involving a Florida-to-Kentucky pill pipeline were given prison terms ranging from 18 months to nine years on Monday.
Darnell DeShawn Butler and Leonard E. Vaughn, both of Ashland, and Christina Y. Mayhone of Huntington were sentenced by U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning.
Butler, 27, received the longest sentence, 108 months. Vaughn, 41, was given 84 months and Mayhone, 25, received 18 months.
Each of the defendants was subject to being sentenced to up to 20 years. However, application of federal sentencing guidelines lessened the time they ultimately received.
Butler and Vaughn also will each have to serve six years on supervised release following their terms of incarceration. Mayhone will be on supervised release for three years.
Bunning recommended all three defendants receive substance abuse treatment in prison. He also recommended Vaughn be placed in a facility close to Lexington, Butler be incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution at Summit and Mayhone be placed at the Federal Prison Camp for women in Alderson, W.Va. However, the placements of all three will ultimately be up to the federal Bureau Prisons.
The ringleader of the organization, Richard Allen “Rick” Young of Fort Myers, Fla., was sentenced last month to 13 years in prison.
Two other defendants in the case, Charlie Nicole Angell and Rico Devaughn Tillman, both of Ashland, also have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing. Angell’s is scheduled for Oct. 9; Tillman’s for Nov. 13.
Eldridge Carnell “Mookie” Primus, a Florida resident who authorities say supplied Young with pills, is the only defendant in the case who hasn’t pleaded guilty.
Young was a major supplier of pills to local drug traffickers, including his co-defendants. According to court records, he funneled roughly 45,000 oxycodone pills from Florida to Kentucky between November 2008 and February of this year.
Young supplied thousands of a pills a month to a Boyd County-based pill-trafficking operation headed by Anthony “Tony” McKenzie up until the time McKenzie was arrested. McKenzie and seven other defendants subsequently pleaded guilty to federal charges and were sentenced to prison terms.
KENNETH HART can be reached at khart@dailyindependent.com or
(606) 326-2654.
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