United States v. Antwon Jenkins

BAUER, Circuit Judge.

A two-year investigation into a drug-trafficking operation commenced in Spring 2011, when the Drug Enforcement Administration received a tip that Tyrone Carra-way was distributing narcotics in East St. Louis, Illinois. Agents enlisted a confidential source to make controlled purchases of crack cocaine from Cortez Yarbrough, one of Carraway’s distributors. In December 2011, DEA agents received authorization to wiretap Carraway’s phone. They learned from the wiretapped conversations that Carraway was obtaining cocaine from a barbershop in St. Louis, Missouri, operated by…