ALEXANDRIA, La. – United States Attorney David C. Joseph
announced that a Lafayette man was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison
for conspiring with three others to sell heroin.
Terrence T. Woods, 33, of Lafayette, Louisiana, was
sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell on one count of conspiracy to
distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. He was also sentenced to four years of
supervised release. According to the
September 20, 2017 guilty plea, Woods conspired to distribute heroin in the
Acadiana area in 2016 and 2017, along with his co-conspirators, Joshua Edwards,
32, of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana; Jacobe Arceneaux, 34, and Robert Jenkins, 36,
both of Lafayette, Louisiana.
Edwards was found guilty after a three-day trial that ended
August 1, 2018 on the conspiracy charge and was sentenced October 31, 2018 to
10 years in prison and eight years of supervised release. Arceneaux pleaded
guilty on July 13, 2017 to distributing heroin and was sentenced October 9,
2018 to 80 months in prison and four years of supervised release. Jenkins pleaded guilty on January 11, 2018 to
distributing heroin, and he was sentenced on May 8, 2018 to 90 months in prison
and four years of supervised release.
The defendants were arrested as part of the Organized Crime
Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) “Operation Toxic Mix.” The FBI, DEA, Lafayette Metro Narcotics and
other law enforcement agencies conducted the investigation. The OCDETF program is a joint federal, state,
and local cooperative approach to combat drug trafficking and is the nation’s
primary tool for targeting national and regional level drug trafficking
organizations, coordinating the necessary
law enforcement entities and resources, and disrupting and dismantling of major
drug trafficking organizations.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Robert C. Abendroth and Daniel J.
McCoy prosecuted the case.
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