Photo by Kevin H.It’s always important to stay in touch with your employer if there’s an emergency. But if you’re working as part of a interstate drug ring and are brought into custody, it’s probably unwise to spend your phone call to ensure that your colleagues keep dealing while you’re under lock and key.
That’s what Moatez Masoud is alleged to have done last January in a court filing posted by Examiner reporter Emily Babay. Masoud’s phone call blew the lid off a massive drug operation, which had been based in the District and Virginia:
The dealers recruited distributors in cities and on college campuses in Virginia, Georgia, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, according to court records.
“We have dismantled a significant, national drug ring that allegedly made millions trafficking marijuana and recruited college athletes to target fellow students for drug sales,” U.S. Attorney for Eastern Virginia Neil MacBride said in a statement. “Distributors often rely on guns and physical violence to enforce debts and ensure the success of their business, allured by the potential for significant profit peddling contraband.”
The complete court filing can be read below.
