United States District Judge Sean F. Cox sentenced former Flint police officer Akil Young, 36, of Davisburg to 90 months in federal prison on 26 February 2010 for conspiring to distribute 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, plus a 100,000 dollar fine.[1] Young, who had left the Flint Police Department in 2001, pleaded guilty on 23 October 2009 after court records showed a conspiracy running since 2005 in which he and others bought large quantities of marijuana in Arizona and had it driven to Michigan for distribution.[1]
Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration and officers of the Flint Area Narcotics Group ended the investigation on 25 February 2009 by executing search warrants in Genesee and Oakland counties, seizing about 1,400 pounds of marijuana and several firearms and charging Young and 29-year-old Flint resident Johnny Earl-Milo Taylor II with conspiracy to possess marijuana with intent to distribute.[2] The complaint carried a statutory minimum of five years and up to 40 years in prison or a 2 million dollar fine, and noted 250,000 dollars Young was said to have abandoned in January 2007.[2] At Young’s Davisburg residence officers seized over 1,000 pounds of marijuana and a .22-caliber handgun, while agents seized over 2 million dollars in cash and multiple vehicles in Michigan, Missouri and Arizona that were later forfeited.[1] Four of seven additional co-conspirators indicted in the case had pleaded guilty by the time of sentencing.[1]
FANG commander Mitch Krugielki later described the February 2009 bust as seizing some 1,200 pounds of marijuana and 1.8 million dollars in cash and assets, calling it the task force’s largest processed-marijuana seizure in Genesee County in five years, with Flint Township receiving 50,317.08 dollars as its forfeiture share.[3]
