Twin brothers from Gainesville will spend some time in federal prison for distributing crack cocaine.
U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak said Kecole Dukes and Kemeca Dukes were sentenced Tuesday, August 7. The Dukes brothers are repeat offenders, according to information provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
"Crack cocaine continues to be a scourge in our communities – particularly in North Georgia," Pak said. "These defendants have multiple state convictions for distributing crack cocaine in the past.Their sentences today demonstrate the serious consequences that career drug dealers face when they are convicted in federal court."
According to Pak, the Dukes brothers conspired to sell crack cocaine on multiple occasions from August 2016 to October 2016 to informants working for ATF and the Hall County Multi-Agency Narcotics Squad (MANS). Kemeca Dukes was the primary contact for the informants and sold varying quantities of crack cocaine to them on 10 occasions. Kecole Dukes sold or provided crack cocaine to the informants on three occasions and acted as a lookout for his brother on other occasions when Kemeca Dukes met with the informants to sell them crack cocaine.
At the time of the undercover sting, both Kemeca Dukes and Kecole Dukes were on parole with the State of Georgia. Both were convicted in Hall County Superior Court in 2011 for selling crack cocaine and both were released in 2014. Both brothers were back selling crack cocaine less than a year later, according to Pak.
Kecole Dukes was sentenced to eight years in prison to be followed by four years of supervised release on August 7, 2018. He was found guilty on March 29, 2018, by a federal court jury of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute at least 28 grams of crack cocaine and three counts of distributing crack cocaine.
Kemeca Dukes was sentenced to seven years, six months in prison to be followed by four years of supervised release on August 7, 2018. He pleaded guilty to one count of distributing crack cocaine on March 23, 2018.
Both men are 41-years-old.
