MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – A federal judge Friday handed down a 20-year prison sentence to a woman convicted of gun charges related to a multimillion-dollar drug conspiracy.
Exavieria Deagnes “DD” Maxie is the sister-in-law of Glennie Antonio “Little Man” McGee, the man prosecutors alleged ran the drug distribution network. The jury convicted him and his wife, along with Maxie.
Unlike the other defendants named in the indictment, the 37-year-old Mobile woman was not accused of drug offenses. But she was the subject of sensational allegations that she tampered with evidence by instructing her 15-year-old son to retrieve McGee’s loaded gun from a shoebox in their apartment and drop it off a balcony to prevent police from finding it. The tampering charge also included allegations that she helped to hide high-end jewelry.
The jury found Maxie guilty of that count, as well as a firearms trafficking conspiracy charge.
Federal law enforcement investigators methodically tracked McGee’s organization, conducting controlled purchases with undercover informants, bugging McGee’s Cadillac Escalade and installing a secret camera on a street pole across from his mother’s home.
Federal investigators estimate that the drug ring sold more than 15,000 kilograms of cocaine over a seven-year period, along with thousands of fentanyl pills, reaping millions of dollars.
Investigators finally moved to take down the enterprise in March 2024, when they raided a drug house on Harvey Court in Mobile and encountered a 3-year-old boy with a bookbag filled with cocaine.
U.S. District Judge Terry Moorer recommended that Maxie receive substance abuse treatment in prison. After prison, she will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for three years.
McGee and his wife are scheduled to be sentenced in August. Prosecutors on Friday continued a hearing begun Thursday to present additional evidence.
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