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Johnson enters federal guilty plea
A Cocke County man has pled guilty to five counts of methamphetamine distribution, as well as illegally possessing 22 firearms and maintaining a residence for the purpose of distributing drugs, at the time of his April, 2016 arrest. Billy Ray Johnson, Crossfield Road, Bybee, faces a minimum mandatory 10 year prison term when he is sentenced in June, in US District Court in Greeneville. Johnson has also agreed to forfeit his home and pay a $350,000 fine. But Asst. US Attorney J.Christian Lampe agreed to drop charges of being a felon in possession of firearms as well as possession of firearms during a drug trafficking offense. When state and federal authorities raided his home, Johnson was allegedly in possession of $30,000 in cash. The defendant has a 1997 conviction for the sale of marijuana in North Carolina, and that added to the enhancement of his sentence.
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