A Chicago man who distributed heroin in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on four different occasions was sentenced today to more than 3 years in federal prison.
Jerry Lamont Granville, age 52, from Chicago, Illinois, received the prison term after an Oct. 31, 2022 guilty plea to four counts of distribution of a controlled substance and one count of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
Evidence at the plea and sentencing hearings showed that law enforcement utilized a confidential informant to conduct four controlled purchases of heroin from Granville between October 2020 and January 2021. On January 5, 2021, following one of the controlled purchases of heroin, law enforcement officers stopped Granville’s vehicle. During a search of the vehicle, officers found heroin and cocaine base.
Granville was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams. Granville was sentenced to 37 months’ imprisonment. He must also serve a 5-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system. Granville is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Special Assistant United States Attorney Adam J. Vander Stoep and was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Task Force consisting of the DEA; the Linn County Sheriff's Office; the Cedar Rapids Police Department; the Marion Police Department; and the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement.
Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.
The case file number is 22-CR-36.
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Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys