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ALBANY — Three people implicated in a nationwide marijuana trafficking and money laundering conspiracy pleaded guilty to federal charges this week, according to the U. S. attorney's office.
Consanga Harris of Troy, James Tyrell Daniels of Fresno, Calif., and Earnest Flood of Richmond, Va., were charged last year along with 24 others with marijuana distribution, firearms possession and other related offenses.
Harris, who goes by the nickname “Sondy” and owns a home in Troy, pleaded guilty to receiving the packages of drugs sold in the Capital Region. She acquired 90 packages — approximately 1,543 pounds of marijuana — from 2018 to 2022, cashing in between $300 and $400 per package.
Under the maximum potential penalties, which are unlikey to be imposed, she faces up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine for possessing the drugs with the intent to sell them.
Several other Capital Region residents involved in the ring have pleaded guilty since the indictment, including Jazell Shuler, Latrice Mumphrey, Victor Turner, Kristle Walker, and Rosemary Coles — an ex-Troy City School District board member.
Flood, aka “Pop,” who also received packages at his residence and sold the drugs in Richmond, could face up to 20 years in prison for money laundering and 5 years for possession of substances. His fines could add up to $750,000.
Daniels, known as “Red” or “Ghost,” faces a prison sentence of between 15 years to life in prison and over $20 million in fines. He has an unrelated violent felony conviction, authorities said.
By pleading guilty, Daniels admitted to working with Dwight A. Singletary II, known as “Nutt” or “Mike Jones,” one of the top individuals in the operation, who pled not guilty along with David Singletary, aka “DB,” McKenzie Coles, or “Kenzie,” JuneAllyson Osman, known as “Juney,” and Nehemiah Fane, aka “Neil” — all from the Fresno or Troy areas.
The group used two houses and a commercial warehouse in Fresno to grow marijuana, which was shipped along with THC edibles through UPS and FedEx from a shipping store that multiple members of the group owned throughout the years-long operation.
According to a report from Freedman, video footage obtained from the warehouse caught Daniels and Singletary tending to the marijuana plants. After being searched by law enforcement in June of 2022, the warehouse was found to contain over 400 marijuana plants.
The shipping store used to smuggle drugs, called Fast Pack & Ship, was owned by McKenzie Merrialice Coles — the daughter of Rosemary Coles — at the time that authorities discovered the ring. McKenzie Coles also owned the management company M.M.M.C. Inc., which she used to run the shipping store.
Two others from Brooklyn — siblings Lateek White and Onisha Smith, unnamed in the U.S. attorney's original news release announcing the indictment — also pleaded guilty in April.
The case was led by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, a federal enforcement program that investigates high-level drug trafficking organizations.
During the years-long operation, Singletary and McKenzie Coles also renovated and sold houses in Fresno and in the Capital Region, including one on Fifth Avenue in Troy. Buying the property in 2016 for $9,000, they sold it for $250,000 four years later.
Prosecutors said Rosemary Coles and her daughter would communicate via text messages about upcoming shipments. She texted her daughter a photo of THC edibles in October 2021, claiming that the “Stoner Patch” edibles sold the most and that: “They take them to school (and) eat them in class.”
