Selma Crips Gang Member Sentenced To Federal Prison

RALEIGH – A verified Crips gang member residing in Selma, NC, was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine and 28 grams or more of cocaine base, and possession with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine and cocaine base. On July 19, 2022, Deondre Montreal Russell, 34, also known as “Poo Bear,” was convicted by a federal jury of the charges.

According to court documents and other information presented in court, Russell, 33, sold cocaine and crack to a confidential informant utilized by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office in January 2020. Upon leaving the meeting, Russell committed a traffic violation and was stopped by police. The stop resulted in an altercation between Russell and the officer, and Russell was arrested and found to be carrying 26.51 grams of crack cocaine, 27.62 grams of cocaine, and $650 in cash.

Over the course of the investigation, a confidential informant notified investigators that they met Russell during the summer of 2018 and stated that Russell sold them approximately 3,628.8 grams of crystal methamphetamine and 453.7 grams of cocaine during an 8-to-9 month period.

The confidential informant observed Russell carrying and possessing at least two firearms.

In October of 2020, when Russell was on state probation, officers federally arrested him and found a digital scale with apparent cocaine residue, as well as 10 grams of marijuana. After the arrest, additional confidential informants confirmed drug purchases from Russell and told investigators that Russell made credible threats to use violence against witnesses in his trial.

Russell has a violent criminal history. In September 2005, Russell pled guilty to second degree murder and was released from prison in 2016. The defendant was originally charged as a juvenile, but his case was bound over to superior court and he was tried as an adult. Following his release from prison, Russell was convicted of possession of cocaine and other controlled substances, as well as selling marijuana in 2018.

Michael Easley, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina made the announcement after sentencing by U.S. District Judge James C. Dever III. The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly L. Sandling prosecuted the case.

38 COMMENTS

  1. He will likely spend just a small fraction of his prison term and then be released -without rehabilitation or any positive change – and end up being a worse criminal when he is back in normal society. The ignorance of our judicial system is astonishing.

  2. “Russell made credible threats to use violence against witnesses in his trial.

    Russell has a violent criminal history. In September 2005, Russell pled guilty to second degree murder and was released from prison in 2016.”

    Does any sane person REALLY wonder why these thugs keep reoffending? The system just keeps letting them out, over and over again, expecting a different result. It ain’t going to happen.

    If prison overcrowding is the problem, let’s use those billions of dollars that we are throwing away in Ukraine and every other country on the planet that has their hand out, to build more prisons here. We need to fix our country first before we worry about everybody else.

    • Prison overcrowding can be fixed by releasing non-violent drug offenders. We already have the highest rate of people incarcerated per capita in the world…

        • Or we could not build more prisons and better utilize the ones we already have by not locking up non-violent drug offenders. But it sounds like you want a prison in your backyard. To each their own..

    • There is no parole in Federal prison for point number one. Number two; I’ll spend my money for Ukraine any day instead of having Russia overrun all of Europe and having to send my grandchildren to fight. We did not intervene early enough in WWII to stop Germany. We need to stop Russia now.

      • You do realize, Ukraine is full of Nazis and Fascists right? Keep watching your silly news that only show the stuff to justify funding Ukraine. Ukraine wants this war, so the west will fight their problems in Russia….

        • ExPat you are incorrect. Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia is the aggressor, just like Hitler brainwashed Germany to attack its neighbors.

          Which country acts like Nazi Germany? If you say Ukraine you don’t understand history and are blind to what is happening right in front of you. If you say Russia you would be correct and in doing so you also would be supporting America and it’s promise to stop WWII FROM EVER HAPPENING AGAIN.

          Russian propaganda would have you think Ukraine is the bad guy, which is exactly what Putin wants.

          Simply comparing Hitler and Putin side by side and the similarities are exactly the same, right down to the genocide of an entire portion of humanity

  3. I knew this guy in middle school. Had a bad attitude then but I hoped for the best. I hate to see stuff like this happen. But if you play stupid games you win stupid prizes.

    • Hush he is a good person Y’all folks make him bad!!! Y’all make me sick if it was a white person it wouldn’t be nobody talking JUST HUSH!!!!!

      • No Sir/ Ma’am, you’ve got to get past that racial stuff. I commented on what the article said and my comment would have been exactly the same whether he was white, black, brown or yellow. A thug is a thug, no matter what color they are. The race card has been overplayed so much now, it’s meaningless. JUST HUSH!!!

        • Actually if you were black you would understand what it feels like to live in america , So hush and a thug isn’t a thug stop using the word thug if you don’t understand the meaning so you hush. and its not overplayed ya’ll folks need to worry about ya’ll self!!!

      • This dude could murder someone and youd be like stop making about race LOL

        As I was once told. If the shoe fits wear it and it seems he will be wearing prison orange for a HOT MIN SISTA

  4. While everybody is pointing fingers when he comitted this murder they left out that he was bullied by the victim that resulted in the tragedy and he was nothing but a kid .. Yes he was wrong for all these crimes but but hes really pittiful because theirs no telling what he endured in prison as a child..

  5. Dang dawg we gon miss you jhit keep yo head high we gon find a way to get u out da fast way we love you bro #freemydawg!

  6. None have mentioned his mother committed suicide in August of 1995-he was the youngest of 3-he was 9 at the time-my grandmother who was orphaned in the Great Depression told over 50 years ago -you never know what someone has been through-

    • Actually you can shut up if you didn’t know he don’t try and make it seem like he a bad person because he isn’t a bad person at all nobody has mentioned the person he “murdered” Bullied him his whole life and his mom committed suicide so if you didn’t know him u can hush disrespectfully #FREEMYDAWG!

  7. First off poo bear bsf you might need to go back to school so you can type a full sentence that makes sense
    Second let him rot for his stupid felony crimes
    #keep a bad dog locked up or in the pound#

    • Actually u ian nobody daddy, first off second off you a lie,and your a pest like i said #FREEMYDAWG ion care bout nun u saying fr and really ya’ll so dumb that ya’ll don’t know they letting him off on parole dumby… Suck it up #BIGCRIPTILLIDIE!!!
      #FREE MY DAWG TILL ITS BACKWARDS!!!! Ya’ll don’t understand as a black person we go thru alot in order to stay alive but im not going to school you about that right now just know my dawg finna be free again and ion care bout nundat words from him- Stop fussin wit dem folks on da net they not gon get you no money or nun they don’t even care if you dead or alive so stop fussin with dem on da net -Poo bear.

  8. Poo bear bsf d.a.f again hopefully by the time he gets out you will be able to type a full sentence that makes sense.
    #go back to kindergarten
    Keep thugs in prison

  9. Just like 💩 bear can’t type a full sentence laugh at that

    Hopefully one day you can get a education
    Thugs will be back in
    Hopefully to rot
    # free my dog then lock up my dog

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