Opinion ID: 573375
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Defendant Bell

Text: 7 Special Agent Lichtefeld testified that on December 13, 1989, the Federal Bureau of Investigation heard several conversations between Kevin Young and defendant Robert Bell. In the first of those conversations, Young asked defendant Bell if he had his money at home, and Bell told Young that he would have to pick up the money. Young told defendant Bell to pick up the money and that he, Young, would stop over. Twenty minutes after that conversation, Young called Kim Butler, a young woman who held Young's cocaine supply for him. Young told Butler to bring seven to his house, presumably seven ounces of cocaine. Less than one-half an hour later, Young called Bell and told Bell to give her the money because she was on her way to Young's house. Fifteen minutes after this conversation, Bell called Young to complain that Butler had not arrived and that Bell had two people waiting on him and suggested that Young hire new people. Bell again called Young twenty-five minutes later at which time Young told defendant Bell to come to Young's house because he had them at his house. 8 On December 14, 1989, the conversations between Young and defendant Bell continued. After Bell called Young and asked him Now?, Young called Larry Turner, a co-conspirator who also stored cocaine for Young, and instructed him to bring a nine piece white chicken dinner, indicating that nine ounces of cocaine were to be brought to Young's house. Soon thereafter, Bell called Young and Young told Bell that it would be twenty-five minutes, that it had to come from the other side of town. Before defendant Bell arrived, Young called Bell and told him that there were people at his house and that Bell was to switch packages with Young's cousin who would be sitting on the couch. One of Young's cousins is Larry Turner who, as stated, is a co-conspirator. 9 Two days later, on December 16, 1989, defendant Bell told Young that he had serious clientele and that he was not able to keep up with them. After this conversation with Bell, Young called Leon Smith, another co-conspirator, and told Smith to pick up nine of his shirts, indicating nine ounces of cocaine which were to be brought from Larry Turner's house to Young's house. Smith agreed and twenty minutes later Young called Bell and told him it would be there in ten minutes and he should come to Young's house. 10 On December 21, 1989, defendant Bell called Young and told him to call that woman and call [me] right back. Young immediately called Lynna Turner and instructed her to bring him nine shirts and within the same minute Young called Bell back and told him that the cocaine would be there in an hour. 11 Other incriminating conversations took place on Christmas Eve when defendant Bell asked Young to come on with it. Young indicated that he was unable to deliver the cocaine, and Bell agreed to come to Young's home. A few days later on December 29, 1989, Young called Kim Butler and told her he was out of shirts and to bring him nine shirts. Seventeen minutes later Young and Bell had a conversation wherein Young told Bell to come to Young's house, and surveillance crews spotted a car registered to Denise Bell at Young's home minutes later. 12 Detective David Allen of the Mahoning County Drug Task Force testified that defendant Robert Bell was a well-established cocaine dealer and that Bell continued to deal in cocaine after his indictment in this case. Allen stated that not only was Bell selling cocaine, he also had other persons selling for him in different locations around Youngstown.