According to Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division, and U.S. Attorney B. Lowery, a 43-year-old Houston rapper has now been sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to deliver and trafficking meth, cocaine, and opioids.
Jermaine West, known as The Breadman, pled guilty to ten charges of cocaine trafficking in the Houston region on April 6.
Now, U.S. District Judge George Hanks sentenced West to 280 months in federal prison, pursued by six years of supervised release. The court heard extra claims that West had been involved in gang activity in addition to his drug trafficking during the hearing. West "destroyed people's lives," according to Judge Hanks, who handed down the punishment. The court went on to say that "for 20 years [West] played a deadly game" and that he "played the game and lost."
West was a member of the rap studio Hood Kat Music Group, which was situated in southeast Houston. The inquiry began in 2019 after law authorities discovered West was selling drugs.
The drug trafficking information, as well as West's acknowledged status as a prominent gang member in southeast Houston, prompted the multi-agency inquiry.
West has been detained and will stay so until he is transferred to a US Bureau of Prisons prison in the near future.
The investigation was led by the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration, with help from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the Houston Police Department.