A Georgia inmate who is a member of the Ghostface Gangsters—a criminal organisation founded in the prison system—and a drug courier have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a large methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy funnelling drugs from a Mexico-based source involving another prisoner and high-ranking GFG member.
Warren Frederick Courts, aka Dirty, 38, of Rutledge State Prison and Marietta, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 240 months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release on Feb. 28. Courts previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine on August 15
Co-defendant Keeli Nycole Wallace, 34, of Covington, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 40 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release on February 28. Wallace pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine on Aug. 14, 2024.
Codefendant Donald Jason Miles, aka Crash, 39, of Valdosta State Prison and Forsyth, Georgia, is awaiting sentencing after he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine on November 13, 2024.
Miles faces a minimum of 10 years to a maximum of life in prison, to be followed by ten years of supervised release and a maximum $10 million fine. His sentencing will be scheduled by the court.
According to court documents and statements referenced in court, undercover Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) agents conducted a drug bust at Motel 6 in Albany on September 12, 2022, resulting from a larger investigation into drug trafficking from Georgia prisons.
Agents learned Courts, a state prisoner, had arranged a drug transaction from behind bars and hired Wallace as a drug courier to move methamphetamine from a Mexico-based source located in metro Atlanta to Southwest Georgia.
Agents arrested Wallace in the parking lot of Motel 6, finding approximately 1,400 grams of methamphetamine and her cell phones.
Investigators discovered that Miles had recruited Wallace as a drug courier several months before her arrest. Wallace admitted she had performed 10-15 deliveries of 250 grams or less of methamphetamine at Miles’s direction.
Miles introduced Wallace to Courts; both Miles and Courts are members of the prison-based criminal organization Ghostface Gangsters. Courts is a subordinate of Miles, as demonstrated by Courts giving Miles a portion of the profits he made from selling narcotics.
During one transaction, Courts instructed Wallace to obtain methamphetamine from a Mexico-based source of supply near Atlanta, Georgia, and take it to meet a buyer at a Walmart in Albany.
The buyer did not show up, and Miles instructed Wallace to return to Atlanta. The next day, Courts told Wallace that the intended buyer was ready. She returned to Motel 6 in Albany, where she was subsequently arrested.
At the time, Miles was incarcerated at Valdosta State Prison, and Courts was incarcerated at Rutledge State Prison for separate drug trafficking offences. Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) officers searched their prison cells and recovered contraband mobile phones on September 16, 2022.
Search warrants were executed on the phones, and investigators discovered detailed communications between Miles, Courts and Wallace related to the drug conspiracy, including communications involving the Mexico-based source of supply and the trafficking of large quantities of methamphetamine.
The investigation revealed that Wallace was just one courier recruited by Miles and that Miles and Courts had funnelled numerous redistributors to the Mexican source of supply near Atlanta, resulting in the distribution of at least 50 kilograms of methamphetamine in two months as a part of this conspiracy.
Of the 50 kilograms distributed, Courts was directly responsible for facilitating the distribution of approximately 13 kilograms.
Both Miles and Courts have lengthy criminal histories, including multiple felony convictions for drug distribution and trafficking. Miles was most recently convicted in the Superior Court of Gwinnett County, Georgia, on April 28, 2021, for conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine and was sentenced to serve 30 years in prison.
Courts was most recently convicted in the Superior Court of Cobb County, Georgia, on October 1, 2021, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and was sentenced to serve a total of 15 years with eight years to be served in custody and the remainder on probation.
