Moss Point gang leader heads to prison for drug trafficking
Published 3:00 pm Friday, January 8, 2016
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a leader of the Bloods street gang in Moss Point has been sentenced for trafficking marijuana, crack and powder cocaine in his hometown.
The Sun Herald Reports (bit.ly/1PiCAfS) Chief U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. sentenced 36-year-old Melvin Summers to 12 years in prison followed by two years of supervised release on trafficking and firearms charges.
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Mike Hines, a Pascagoula police officer assigned to the FBI Safe Streets Task Force, said Summers had been under investigation since March 2012 after a confidential informant told agents Summers had been dealing large amounts of drugs from a home he rented. Hines said Summers used the home strictly for his drug business.
Hines testified that Summers carried a submachine gun when he was dealing drugs.
