LITTLE ROCK MAN SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

Fort Smith, Arkansas – Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Terrance Quartez Jarrett, aka Boopie, age 34, of Little Rock, was sentenced last week to 180 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, on counts of Possession With Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession With Intent to Distribute Marijuana. The Honorable P.K. Holmes III presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.

According to court records, in May of 2016, officers with the Fort Smith Police Department (FSPD) received information that Terrance Jarrett , a/k/a Boopie, had been selling narcotics out of his residence. On May 17, 2016, a parole search was conducted at Jarrett’s residence. During the search, Officers located approximately 104 grams of methamphetamine and approximately 223 grams of marijuana and three firearms.

Jarrett was named in a federal indictment in June of 2016. In January of 2017, a jury found Jarrett guilty of Possession With Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession With Intent to Distribute Marijuana.

The Fort Smith Police Department investigated this case with the assistance of Arkansas Department of Community Correction Probation and Parole and the Department of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives. Assistant United States Attorney’s Candace Taylor and Aaron Jennen prosecuted the case for the United States.

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