U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that 41 YO Jimmelle Pines, a resident of Hammond, pled guilty on January 13, 2022 to Count 1 of the Indictment, charging him with possessing with intent to distribute one (1) kilogram or more of a mixture or substance containing heroin.
The defendant faces a minimum sentence of ten (10) years in prison.
According to court records, Pines, when arrested on November 5, 2020 at his grandmother’s property in Ponchatoula, possessed approximately 1.575 kilograms of heroin that he intended to sell.
In October 2020, officers working with the Ponchatoula Police Department and federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations, received credible information that Pines stored large quantities of heroin in immobile cars parked on his grandmother’s property in Ponchatoula.
