Opinion ID: 712234
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Melva Ford

Text: 18 The evidence similarly indicates that Mr. Hutching supervised or managed Melva Ford. Mr. Hutching stored the pickup truck containing the cocaine at her residence after telling her that [t]he truck is loaded. Even if the period of supervision may have been quite brief in duration, someone who stores drugs for [a] defendant ... is also within the ambit of the [continuing criminal enterprise] statute. United States v. Ward, 37 F.3d 243, 247 (6th Cir.1994), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 115 S.Ct. 1388, 131 L.Ed.2d 240 (1995). The evidence indicated that Ms. Ford knew the drug-related nature of the shipment in her care; in fact her knowledge was what made her a prime suspect in the truck's disappearance. 19