Butler County Man Sentenced For Multi-Kilogram Drug Conspiracy
Sunday, November 10, 2024, 6:30 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
CINCINNATI, OH.- On Monday, November 4, 2024, Eric Jason Clark, 42, of Fairfield, Ohio, appeared in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Michael R. Barrett to 200 months in federal prison, to be followed by twenty years of supervised release for his February 2024 conviction for Conspiring to Traffic 11 Kilograms of Illicit Narcotics.
Following a bench trial in February 2024, Judge Barrett found Clark guilty of taking part in a large-scale drug conspiracy involving at least eleven kilograms of cocaine and fentanyl.
According to U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Parker and evidence presented at trial, Clark was a significant distributor of controlled substances, which included large quantities of cocaine and fentanyl throughout the Cincinnati, Ohio, area. The evidence further showed that Clark had criminal contacts in Los Angeles, California.
   During an investigation in May 2021, the Drug Enforcement Administration received information that Clark had expressed interest in purchasing ten kilograms of cocaine from a drug source in Los Angeles for $33,000 per kilogram. Later that month, Clark met locally with a confidential source to arrange a narcotics transaction after he was contacted by a federal undercover agent. Clark told the source he also wanted to obtain a shipment of fentanyl, calling it China.
During his arrest in August 2021 on conspiracy charges, federal agents found five kilograms of cocaine and fentanyl, more than $204,000 in U.S. currency, and five cell phones in his vehicle. During the execution of court-authorized search warrants, agents found at his “Stash House,” a luxury apartment on Freedom Way in Cincinnati, three more kilograms of fentanyl and three more kilograms of cocaine. During a search at Clark’s residence in Fairfield, agents found more than $15,000 in U.S. currency and two firearms.
At the time of his arrest on the charges, Clark was on supervised release for a prior conviction of attempting to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, which he received a 15-year federal prison sentence for.
