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04/29/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/29/2026 13:58

Sixteen Individuals Indicted in Takedown of East Alabama Drug Trafficking Organization as part of a Homeland Security Task Force Investigation (DOJ)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury has indicted 16 individuals in separate-but-related indictments for drug trafficking and illegal firearms' possession, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Catherine L. Crosby.

Three indictments filed in U.S. District Court charge the following individuals:

Aumori Jaimon Willis, 22, Nasir Ahmad Fluker, 22, Jarek Ahmad Burroughs, 21, and Robert Blake Stovall, 33-all of Anniston, Alabama-and Edward Damon Wade, 32, of Jacksonville, Alabama, were charged with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribution of methamphetamine. The alleged incidents occurred between September 2025 and March 2026, in Calhoun County, Alabama. The indictment also charges Stovall with using and carrying a firearm during and relation to a drug-trafficking crime and Willis and Burroughs with possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.

Logan Chase Turner, 28, of Boaz, Alabama, and Mary Ann Alexander, 60, of

Eastaboga, Alabama, were charged with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribution of methamphetamine. The alleged incidents occurred in January 2026 in Calhoun County, Alabama. The indictment also charges Turner with being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.

Bradderick Dewayne Nolan, 52, Barry Eugene Nolan, 58, Cederick Lamon Woolverton, 57, Dantreas Thomas, 42, and Leiquore Tavera Crook, 42-all of Anniston, Alabama- Robert Jamiel David, 43, Toshi Maurice Holliday, 48, and Jermaine Jenkins, 51-all of Munford, Alabama-and Gregory Lee Burnett, 48, of Gadsden, Alabama, were charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of methamphetamine. The alleged incidents occurred between June 2025 and March 2026, in Calhoun County, Alabama. The indictment also charges Bradderick Nolan with being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. Bradderick Nolan, Barry Nolan, Holliday, Jenkins and David were also charged with use of a communication facility to commit a drug trafficking crime.

This operation is part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The HSTF is a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad. Through historic interagency collaboration, the HSTF directs the full might of United States law enforcement towards identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the full spectrum of crimes committed by these organizations, which have long fueled violence and instability within our borders. In performing this work, the HSTF places special emphasis on investigating and prosecuting those engaged in child trafficking or other crimes involving children. The HSTF further utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States. The Alabama HSTF comprises agents and officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Marshals Service (USMS), and the Internal Revenue Service, with the prosecution being led by the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Alabama.

ATF and DEA investigated the case, with assistance from the United States Postal Inspection Service, USMS, HSI, the 7th Judicial Major Crimes Unit, Anniston Police Department, Oxford Police Department, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, Calhoun County Sheriff's Office, Cleburne County Sheriff's Office, Talladega Drug Task Force, West Alabama Narcotics Task Force, Irondale Police Department, and Pell City Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Allison J. Garnett and Brittany T. Byrd are prosecuting the cases.

An indictment contains only charges. Defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

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