The Georgia man sentenced to the federal prison for drug trafficking while in Alabama prison

Mobile, Ala. (Wala) – a man from Georgia received a federal punishment for more than 17 years for drug trafficking while in a prison in Alabama.

Justin Brian Melton, 35, was sentenced to 210 months for conspiring to distribute fantanil in bulk and methamphetamine while he was behind Alabama graces in another case of drug trafficking, the American lawyer for the southern district of Alabama said this week.

According to the judicial documents, Melton was convicted in the circuit county in the mobile county of heroin trafficking in 2022. The state sentenced Melton to 20 years in this case. He performed that sentence at Ventress Correctional Center in Clayton, Ala.

While in Ventress, Melton used mobile smuggling phones between March 2023 and May 2024 to orchestrates the transport of fentanil and metth in the Atlanta area in South Alabama and elsewhere, the court document revealed.

In November 2023, the authorities arrested one of Melton’s co-conspirators in Atmore and confiscated half a kilogram of fentanil. The co-conspirator concluded a bulk fentanyl agreement in Atlanta, which Melton interacted and was on his return, according to the judicial documents.

The agents obtained telephone records on Melton’s smuggling phones and registered calls between Melton and co-conspirators, according to judicial documents.

In addition to the term in prison, the chief judge of American district Jeffrey U. Beverstock ordered Melton to meet 10 years of supervised release after leaving the prison.

The drug application administration, the Baldwin County Sheriff’s officer, the Sheriff’s officer in Esambia County and the Alabama Law Agency investigated the case.