Opinion ID: 160816
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: The Seabury Conspiracy

Text: Defendant sold crack for a living. R. Vol. III at 8. Seabury and Defendant began buying crack together in 1997. Id. at 8-9. Their first joint purchase occurred in January, 1997. Defendant arranged to meet the seller, a person unknown to Seabury, in a grocery story parking lot in Topeka, Kansas. Id. Seabury and Defendant then drove to Topeka, Kansas, where Defendant paged the seller. Id. at 10. When the seller approached their car, Seabury gave Defendant $500 which Defendant put together with his own $500 and handed to the seller in exchange for one ounce of crack. Id. at 10-11. After purchasing crack in Topeka, Defendant and Seabury divided it equally and then sold it separately. Id. at 12. Defendant had others sell his crack for him. Id. Specifically, Seabury saw Jermaine Archibald, a/k/a Bastard, sell drugs for Defendant. Id. at 14. Defendant and Seabury made two additional joint purchases from the Topeka seller in the same manner. The second joint purchase of crack occurred in 1 See United States v. Hanzlicek, 187 F.3d 1228, 1239 (10th Cir. 1999). -3- May 1997, and differed from the first only in that two ounces were purchased for $2000. The third and final joint purchase made by Seabury and Defendant took place in July 1997. That time, four ounces of crack were purchased for $4000. Seabury and Defendant had Seabury’s mother rent cars for them, generally for one month at a time, which they used to drive to Topeka to buy crack and for other purposes. Id. at 63-65. Defendant and Seabury each paid half of the rental charge and they shared the use of the rental cars equally. Id. During the period of time in which Defendant and Seabury were buying crack in Topeka, they spent a significant amount of time together and even jointly rented a home in Ogden, Kansas. Id. at 5-6. At trial, the government introduced a photograph of Defendant and Seabury in which Defendant is displaying a large amount of cash for the camera. See id. at 23-24, Govt’s Ex. No. 2. Seabury confirmed that the money Defendant is holding in that photograph came from selling crack. Id.