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Gulfport, Miss. – Dale Ricardo Easterling, 43, of Moss Point, Mississippi, pled guilty
today before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to conspiring to distribute cocaine,
announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with
Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
On July 13, 2018, a Louisiana State Trooper stopped a car driven by Easterling
traveling east bound on Interstate 10. The trooper searched the car and found a hidden
compartment with seven kilograms of cocaine. Easterling admitted that he was taking the
cocaine back to Moss Point for further distribution. He also admitted that this was not his
first trip back to Moss Point with cocaine.
On the same day, FBI Safe Streets Task Force agents executed a search warrant at
Easterling’s home and found
ammunition, over 500 grams of marijuana brownies, 1.5
kilograms of marijuana, 833 grams of Fentanyl, 5 grams of heroin, and 99 pills made to look like
oxycodone, but actually containing fentanyl and acetaminophen, a dangerous and sometimes
deadly combination.
Easterling will be sentenced on February 14, 2019, by Judge Guirola, and faces a
maximum penalty of life in prison and a $10 million fine.
The case was investigated by the FBI Safe Streets Task Force, Drug Enforcement
Administration, South Mississippi Metro Enforcement Team, and the Louisiana State
Police. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathlyn R. Van Buskirk.
