Opinion ID: 2976344
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Jeffrey Lynn

Text: Jeffrey Lynn testified that between 1999 and 2001, he, his sister Jeracho Poole, and a nowdeceased friend transported large quantities of marijuana from California to Youngstown, where Lynn then sold the drug to Anderson and Love. Lynn further stated that in the beginning of 2001, Anderson and Love presented him with a “business proposition for [him] to transport cocaine from California to [Ohio].” According to Lynn, Love gave Lynn the pager number for “a guy named Kev that resided in California.” Lynn stated that he subsequently spoke to Kev on the phone and arranged a meeting in California between Kev and Poole. From that point forward, Lynn claimed, Poole went to California to meet Kev two to three times a week by airplane and once or twice a month by car. Lynn further testified that when his sister brought the cocaine back to Youngstown, he would usually divide it evenly between himself, Anderson, and Love. He noted that many of the drug transactions in Youngstown took place in or around three houses—located at 926, 935, and 939 Sherwood—that Anderson owned. In July of 2001, Poole was arrested. Lynn stated that this caused Kev to subsequently come to Youngstown, where Kev, Lynn, Anderson, and Love held a meeting at Love’s house. According to Lynn, he met Kev at this meeting “for the first time face-to-face.” Lynn further stated that the purpose of the meeting was to figure out how to reestablish the cocaine operation now that their main courier, Poole, could no longer participate. After the meeting, Lynn met Kev approximately No. 06-4080 United States v. Wheaton Page 3 three or four times in Ohio and received somewhere between one and three kilograms of cocaine during each transaction. Lynn said that he did not have any further contact with Kev after 2002. In addition, Lynn identified Wheaton at trial as the person whom he had known as Kev. Lynn also explained that he had begun cooperating with the government in 2002, and that because he had become an informant for the government in this and other drug cases, the government did not indict him for any of his drug-trafficking activities. He further stated that the government had spent “a couple hundred dollars” paying for his gas, cell phone bill, and other “operational expenses.”