Opinion ID: 2811841
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Defendants’ Crack-Cocaine Operation

Text: Sereme and Michael Hester had worked together selling narcotics in Oklahoma. Hester transported the drugs and served as a lookout for Sereme. In 2010, Sereme, his girlfriend, and Hester moved from Oklahoma to Fort Myers, Florida. They occupied an apartment in the Buddyville area of Fort Myers. Sereme, Hester, and Rick Jean sold crack cocaine from this Buddyville apartment. Sereme purchased powder cocaine from Miami, which he used to produce and sell 2 Case: 13-10471 Date Filed: 06/25/2015 Page: 3 of 37 crack cocaine. Sereme and Hester subsequently moved into a residential trailer on Capital Street in the Palmona Park neighborhood of North Fort Myers and began selling crack cocaine there. New apartments were opened for selling crack cocaine in the Buddyville area. Michael Dupin sold crack cocaine from an apartment on Carmen Avenue; Rick Jean sold crack cocaine from an apartment on Kimble Drive. Wilmane Jean, Ductant, and Hyppolite sold crack cocaine from the Kimble Drive apartment. In August 2010, an undercover officer purchased crack cocaine from Ductant at an apartment on Breeze Drive; Hyppolite had sold crack cocaine from the same apartment.