United States v. Demetrius Jones

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

This consolidated appeal stems from convictions related to a large-scale drug conspiracy in St. Louis, Missouri. William Yancey Jones (William Jones), Kevin Pleas, Demetrius Mack, and Lamar Howell each pled guilty in the district court 2 to conspiring to distribute cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & 846.- Demetrius Jones, William Jones’s son, was not considered part of the conspiracy but pled guilty to three counts of distributing cocaine base, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). Tonya and Sherdonna Jones, William Jones’s daughters, each pled guilty to…