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Louisiana Trucking Company Owner Sentenced for Distributing Cocaine and Marijuana

Published November 18, 2021

Louisiana – Rusty Ross Honore, 42, of New Iberia, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Michael J. Juneau to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release on drug trafficking charges, according to Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook. In addition, he was sentenced to pay a $10,000 fine.

Honore pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana on July 21, 2021, and confessed at the guilty plea hearing that he conspired with two other co-conspirators in the Western District of Louisiana to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana.

Honore was suspected of distributing cocaine in the Lafayette region by law enforcement authorities from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the United States Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), who launched an investigation into his drug trafficking activities in March 2020. Agents discovered that Honore and his co-conspirators possessed and distributed roughly 207 pounds of marijuana and 2 kilos of cocaine after conducting an investigation that included the use of surveillance and other investigative tactics.

Honore was convicted of a federal crime in 2006 for conspiring to possess cocaine and marijuana with the purpose to distribute them. In 2012, he was freed from prison, and his supervised release sentence concluded in 2014.

The case was investigated by the DEA, the US Department of Homeland Security Investigations, the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office, and the Lafayette Police Department. The case was prosecuted by Assistant US Attorney Daniel J. McCoy.