When investigators probed the circumstances of Kelsey Johnston’s death, they uncovered a loose network of dealers operating mostly in south Mobile County. It was not the volume of drugs or the amount of money changing hands that drew the attention of federal prosecutors. The $24 million enterprise run by convicted kingpin Darrin “DD” Southall was much bigger on both fronts.
) - Leigh Wade was concerned when a strange man called her daughter’s Facebook Messenger account on Oct. 11, 2018.The Theodore resident said the man quickly hung up when he realized he was talking to the wrong person. Wade said she got in her car and went looking for her 27-year-old daughter, Kelsey Johnston. She said she knew only that Johnston was going to be in Tillman’s Corner that day.
Johnston succumbed to fentanyl, an incredibly potent drug that has wrought havoc across the country and was then just beginning to hit the streets in Mobile. All but three of the defendants have been convicted, and prosecutors told FOX10 News they have developed several spinoff cases from those initial defendants.
Melton also got “ice” from suppliers in Moss Point, on Jones Road in Theodore, and from his uncle in a wooded area off of Bellingrath Road. Much the drug activity by members of the conspiracy took place at the house on Crossley Hill Drive, the so-called “Blue House” on Dawes Road and low-end motels off of Interstate 10 in Tillman’s Corner. At least two overdose deaths, including Johnston’s, occurred at the Rodeway Inn, later called the Regency Inn.
Jeff Deen, an attorney who represented Jay Patel, said the owners did the best they could but did not work on site full time. “He had incompetent corrupt security guards,” he said. “He had corrupt people working at the night desk. Even the maids.”Fentanyl, a synthetic drug called “Grey Death” by dealers, is up to 100 times stronger than morphine and has fueled a dramatic jump in overdose deaths. The latest provisional government data show 1,232 drug overdose deaths in Alabama in the 12-month period ending in November. That was up 28 percent year over year.
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