El Dorado group sentenced to a combined 47 years for drug trafficking

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EL DORADO — The final member of a South Arkansas drug trafficking organization was sentenced Wednesday to federal prison for the distribution of methamphetamine.

According to court documents, beginning in February of 2019, investigators with the 13th Judicial District Drug Task Force, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) initiated an investigation into a drug trafficking organization operating out of the El Dorado Division of the Western District of Arkansas. During the course of that investigation, Pharell Jackson and his drug trafficking organization were identified by investigators to be responsible for distributing large quantities of methamphetamine from Magnolia, Arkansas, to other locales in the Western District of Arkansas and the Eastern District of Arkansas.

Those members of the drug trafficking organization indicted federally have been sentenced as follows:

Pharell Bronse Jackson: age 32, El Dorado, Arkansas — Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine — 168 months imprisonment and 3-year term of supervised release.

Michael Fitzgerald Williams Jr.: age 31, North Little Rock, Arkansas — Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine — 120 months imprisonment and 3-year term of supervised release.

Gary Bernard Green II: age 33, Camden, Arkansas — Distribution of Methamphetamine — 168 months imprisonment and 3-year term of supervised release.

Jacovas Deonta Mitchell: age 32, El Dorado, Arkansas — Knowing and Intentionally Distributing Methamphetamine — 108 months imprisonment and 3-year term of supervised release.

U.S. Attorney David Clay Fowlkes of the Western District of Arkansas made the announcement.

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