27-05-2025
Gang member sentenced to 14 years for fentanyl trafficking
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCT) — A Raleigh gang member was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for conspiring to traffic fentanyl pills in the Eastern North Carolina area.
On June 7, 2024, Shakeim Weeks, age 30, was arrested when law enforcement found approximately 100,000 fentanyl pills, weighing approximately 11 kilograms, in Week's suitcase when he returned to North Carolina from a resupply trip to Arizona.
Weeks pled guilty on February 27, 2025, to Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute Four Hundred Grams or More of a Mixture and Substance Containing a Detectable Amount of Fentanyl.
The fentanyl pills Weeks' brought to North Carolina were packaged in Lego boxes, consistent with other seizures of fentanyl pills from this drug trafficking organization.
According to court documents, Weeks, a validated member of the United Blood Nation gang, was part of a drug trafficking organization that was obtaining fentanyl pills in California and Arizona and transporting them to the Raleigh area for distribution.
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