A Bessemer man convicted under the federal drug “Kingpin” statute has been sentenced to life in prison.
Rolando Antuain Williamson, aka “Baldhead” and “Ball Head,” was found guilty in April..
U.S. District Judge Annmarie C. Axon sentenced Williamson to life in prison plus 120 months for leading a multi-million dollar continuing criminal enterprise; conspiring to distribute or possess with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana; distributing or possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana; using, carrying, or possessing a firearm during or in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; and using a communication facility to commit a drug trafficking crime.
In the summer of 2019, Williamson planned to drive to Atlanta, a popular cartel transshipment point, to meet with a cartel a*sociate to pick up another load, but FBI agents arrested Williamson, searching his home and two other properties.
Inside his home, agents found marijuana, more than 135 grams of heroin and 150 grams of fentanyl, up to 75,000 potentially lethal doses of the*top drug k*lling Americans.
In August, the judge*sentenced Williamson, 37, to life*plus 10 years in prison and added a money judgment against him totaling more than $36 million as a penalty for trafficking the fentanyl found in his home, more than 400 kilos of cocaine, more than 24 kilos of heroin, 10 kilos of methamphetamine and more than 20,000 pounds of marijuana.
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