St. Louis Man Sentenced for Role in Cocaine Conspiracy
| U.S. Attorney’s Office July 09, 2009 |
A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on July 8, 2009, KENNETH LAMONT TALTON, age 29, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 160 months’ imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay a mandatory special assessment of $100, and a $500 fine.
TALTON was convicted on April 1, 2009, following a jury trial in United States District Court in East St. Louis, of one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine. Eleven of TALTON’S co-defendants previously pled guilty and have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 46 months to life. All federal sentences are served without possibility of parole.
The investigation was conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of their participation in the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF). The OCDETF program is designed to investigate and prosecute major national and international drug organizations through the cooperative efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and prosecutors. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Daniel T. Kapsak.