08/19/2024
Atlanta Woman Sentenced to Prison for Supplying Fentanyl
and M**h to Armed Drug Trafficking Organization
By The US Department of
Justice/US Attorney’s Office
Middle District of Georgia
MACON, Ga. – The supplier
to an armed m**hamphetamine
and fentanyl trafficking organi-
zation who was providing kilo-
gram quantities of narcotics out
of her high-rise Atlanta condo-
minium was sentenced today to
serve 20 years in prison.
Heather Marie Breland, 40, of
Atlanta, was sentenced to serve
240 months in prison to be fol-
lowed by five years of supervised
release by U.S. District Judge C.
Ashley Royal on Aug. 14. Bre-
land previously pleaded guilty
to one count of aiding and abet-
ting others to possess with in-
tent to distribute more than fifty
grams of m**hamphetamine on
Oct. 5, 2023. There is no parole
in the federal system.
“Heather Breland enjoyed the
trappings of luxury by traffick-
ing in deadly drugs, to include
the scourge of fentanyl,” said
U.S. Attorney Peter D. Leary.
“Her 20-year federal prison
sentence demonstrates the ded-
ication of our federal, state and
local law enforcement partners
to halting the supply of dead-
ly drugs into our communities
and saving lives.”
“Violent and dangerous drug
traffickers are enriching their
lives by profiting off someone
else’s pain and addiction,” stated
Robert J. Murphy, Special Agent
in Charge of the DEA Atlan-
ta Division. “Heather Breland
will now face significant federal
prison time for her crime.”
“Heather Breland and her
co-defendants were involved in
an organized network designed
to peddle poison onto the streets
of our community. Most law en-
forcement agencies don’t have
the resources to handle investi-
gations to combat organizations
like this one. We are fortunate to
have federal, state and local law
enforcement agencies in Middle
Georgia that recognize the ben-
efit of working together in order
to keep our communities safe,”
said Peach County Sheriff Terry
W. Deese.
According to court documents
and statements made in court,
between Oct. 2021 and June
2022, DEA agents and local law
enforcement investigated a drug
trafficking organization (DTO)
led by co-defendant Raiford
Reeves aka “RH,” 44, of Warner
Robins. Breland—the supplier
to this DTO—was distributing
kilogram quantities of narcot-
ics, primarily m**hamphet-
amine and fentanyl, to Reeves
out of her condominium locat-
ed in Atlanta’s Buckhead neigh-
borhood. Law enforcement ob-
tained court orders to intercept
the phone calls and text mes-
sages from cell phones belong-
ing to Breland and Reeves and
conducted controlled purchas-
es of m**hamphetamine from
Reeves. Reeves would supply
other co-defendants with some
of the narcotics to sell.
Agents observed Breland trav-
el to Macon to provide narcotics
to Reeves; she also had a self-
storage unit in Macon on Riv-
erside Drive to store drugs. On
May 26, agents executed search
warrants in Warner Robins,
Macon, and at Breland’s Atlanta
condominium. In her residence,
agents seized 3.266 kilograms of
pure m**hamphetamine, 14.72
grams of fentanyl, co***ne, mar-
ijuana, a 9mm semi-automatic
pistol, a .22 magnum caliber re-
volver, two cellphones and
$78,353 cash. Agents seized
eight pounds of ma*****na in a
Louis Vuitton duffle bag from
her Macon storage unit.
Following the searches, Bre-
land fled to North Carolina,
created a fictitious license plate
and changed her hair length and
color. She was arrested by U.S.
Marshals on Oct. 20, 2022, at a
hotel and casino in Biloxi, Mis-
sissippi. When she was arrest-
ed, she had m**hamphetamine
and ID cards with a similar ap-
pearance but false identifying
information. Breland has sev-
en prior felony convictions for
forgery, possession of m**h-
amphetamine, burglary and
identity fraud. Co- defendant
Reeves was sentenced to serve
210 months in prison on May
15, 2024, after he pleaded guilty
to one count of distribution of
m**hamphetamine on March
29, 2023.
For more information
about this case and
additional c o d e f e n -
dants, please visit: https://
www.justice.gov/usao-mdga/
pr/atlanta-resident-supply-
ing-armed-m**h-fentanyl- or-
ganization-pleads-guilty.
This effort is part of an Orga-
nized Crime Drug Enforcement
Task Force (OCDETF) opera-
tion. OCDETF identifies, dis-
rupts, and dismantles the high-
est-level criminal organizations
that threaten the United States
using a prosecutor-led, intelli-
gence-driven and multi-agency
approach. Additional infor-
mation about the OC-
DETF Program can be
found at https://www.justice.
gov/OCDETF.
The case was investigated by
the Drug Enforcement Admin-
istration (DEA), the Bureau of
Alcohol, To***co, Fi****ms,
and Explosives (ATF), the War-
ner Robins Police Department,
the Houston County Sheriff ’s
Office, the Bibb County Sheriff ’s
Office and the Peach County
Sheriff ’s Office with assistance
from the U.S. Marshals Service.
Deputy Criminal Chief Will
Keyes is prosecuting the case for
the Government.
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