United States v. Johnson

Myron H. Thompson, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Defendant Brandon Anthony Johnson pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute, etc., 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and one count of actually *1215distributing, etc., more than 500 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 846. He essentially served as middleman in these crimes, arranging for a package containing 900.1 grams of methamphetamine mixture to be mailed from where he was in California to a co-defendant in Alabama.

Johnson avoided an otherwise applicable 10-year mandatory-minimum sentence…