Since 1995, a Douglasville man has spent more than half of his days locked up in Georgia prisons and North Carolina jails.
Now he has earned 30 more years behind bars for what he did inside those facilities.
Alejandro Javier Chaves, 44, pleaded guilty to using contraband cellphones to orchestrate large methamphetamine transports in Georgia and North Carolina, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina said in a news release. He was sentenced Dec. 19 to spend 30 years in federal prison.
In 2017, Chaves was serving a sentence in Georgia after being convicted of nine felonies in Cobb County, Georgia Department of Corrections records show. Those charges included multiple counts of trafficking meth and terroristic threats toward law enforcement.
Between January and February of that year, Chaves used a contraband cellphone to orchestrate multi-ounce meth deals with a drug trafficker in North Carolina, the release said. That led to his October 2017 indictment in Asheville.
He was transferred to a North Carolina jail to face the federal charges, and he pleaded guilty in May 2018 to possession with intent to distribute meth, the release said.
However, he did the same thing again. While at the Buncombe County (N.C.) Detention Center, Chaves used a cellphone to orchestrate multiple meth deals, adding up to about 4.5 kilograms (10 pounds) worth of drugs, the release said.
He arranged those drug deals after he had entered his guilty plea but before he had been sentenced, the release said.
U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger ordered Chaves to spend five years under court supervision following his 30-year federal prison sentence. The Asheville branch of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration investigated the case.
According to GDC records, he has served six sentences in Georgia prisons since 1995 for convictions in Cobb and Douglas counties.
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