Opinion ID: 2658283
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Marco Perkins

Text: Although much of the Government’s proffered evidence with respect to Marco Perkins shows only that he had a fraternal relationship with Shawn Perkins, sufficient evidence supports the jury’s finding that the relationship was one between co-conspirators as well. The jury heard several recorded wiretapped calls that support an inference that Marco Perkins was part of a drug distribution business, at least with his brother Shawn Perkins and with Akins. On a call between Shawn Perkins and Akins on December 13, 2008, Akins said, “I’m right at four now. I don’t know what Marco and them did.” On another call between Shawn Perkins and Akins that same day, Akins said: I mean I’m like this, like 40, like 41. Marco and them, they got something they’ve been working today, so they’ve probably got like five or six hundred. Scooter, I mean, the four is part of the eight that Scooter owe me. He said just hit him and he’ll have it . . . Like I said, 41 with the eight that Scooter owe and – and Marco and them, shoot, they got like 20 of them yards. So then I got like two flippers left . . . . 28 United States v. Hale, 685 F.3d 522, 543 (5th Cir. 2012). 29 United States v. Solis, 299 F.3d 420, 445 (5th Cir. 2002). 30 See, e.g., Perez-Solis, 709 F.3d at 461. 31 Id. 17 Case: 12-40515 Document: 00512575405 Page: 18 Date Filed: 03/27/2014 No. 12-40515 The two mentioned Marco again on a call the following day, in which Akins said to Shawn Perkins, “How many – how much more Marco over there? Huh?,” and then they talk about four or five yards. Two days later, on December 16, Shawn Perkins received a text message from an unknown person saying, “Yall need to fire marco I sware I need three yards aint seem him yet I been waiting since three thirty just tell him to holla[.]” That same day, in a call between Marco Perkins and his brother Shawn, Marco told Shawn, “I can’t got no access to no hard either,” and that “I got five little, JJ want one and Red want two, hell I might break them other two down.” The next day, Shawn asked Marco, “How much bread you got?” to which Marco responded, “Seven.” From these and other similar calls, the jury reasonably could infer that Marco Perkins was actively involved in a drug distribution conspiracy with Shawn Perkins, Kendrick Akins, and perhaps others. There is no basis to disrupt the jury’s finding.