A Texas man has pleaded guilty for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy in Mississippi’s capital city.
33-year-old Marcus Lamont Wallace of Houston, Texas, admitted that he knowingly agreed with others to mail approximately 11,000 tablets made with methamphetamine from Houston to an address Wallace owned in Jackson, Mississippi with the intent that those tablets be further distributed.
Postal video surveillance captured Wallace mailing the drugs by Priority Mail on January 4, 2022, to the Jackson address. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service intercepted the parcel and obtained a federal search warrant to open the package after a certified narcotics canine detected the odor of narcotics coming from the parcel.
In addition to identifying the methamphetamine in a random sample of the drugs, scientists with the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection Laboratory and Science Services also developed fingerprints on the packaging around the drugs, and these prints belonged to Wallace and an unidentified person.
Wallace is scheduled to be sentenced on January 17, 2024, and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. A federal district judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Homeland Security Investigations are investigating the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Carla J. Clark is prosecuting the case.
