The defendants in the narcotics distribution operation who have pleaded guilty in Oklahoma City’s federal court and await sentencing in the near future are listed below, along with the crimes they admit having committed.
• Douglas Robert Smart, alias “Southside” and “SS,” 39: conspiracy. Initially named in six felony counts, Smart was one of the convicts who facilitated the drug distribution operation from inside prison walls, investigators and federal prosecutors said.
Smart’s criminal record extends back to 2001. According to state Department of Corrections (DOC) records, he has amassed convictions in Oklahoma, Cleveland and Greer counties for possession of stolen property, burglary, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, possession of illegal drugs, robbery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, distribution of illegal drugs, larceny of a motor vehicle, receiving stolen property, and uttering a forged instrument.
• Jose Hernandez, alias “Guero,” 35: drug conspiracy. He, too, was one of the incarcerated conspirators.
• Brandon Horne, 37: drug conspiracy.
• Kevin Vigil Jr., alias “Travieso Loko,” 29: drug conspiracy.
• Zachary George Crister, a/k/a “Ghost,” 28: distribution of methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, and using a telephone to conduct narcotics trafficking. Crister has multiple convictions in Oklahoma County on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, pointing a firearm, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and carrying a weapon, drugs or alcohol into jail.
• Deany Allen Nava, a/k/a “Loco,” 30: drug conspiracy. Nava was convicted in Tulsa County in 2012 of robbery with a dangerous weapon, false impersonation, and assault with a dangerous weapon. He was incarcerated in a state prison from May 30, 2013 to June 8, 2018, records show.
• Sharlene Cash, alias “Shy” and “Taglight,” 34: distribution of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Cash originally was named in 27 felony counts.
• Jennifer Dawn Cuccaro, 43: drug conspiracy, in that she was in possession of a substantial amount of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
Cuccaro has multiple drug convictions in Oklahoma County: possession of a controlled dangerous substance, 2001; possession of hydrocodone (an opioid pain medication) without a valid prescription, 2002; possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, 2002; possession of a cocaine based substance, 2004; possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, 2004; possession of diazepam (an anxiety medication commonly known by its brand name, Valium), 2004; and possession of Percocet (an analgesic opioid) without a valid prescription, 2012.
• Rhiannon Faith Jones, alias “Giggles,” 39: drug conspiracy. She was originally charged with four felony crimes, including possession of heroin with intent to distribute.
• Cecil Williams, a/k/a “Looney,” 43: drug conspiracy. He initially faced seven felony counts, including distribution of meth.
• Elizabeth Rendon, 24: conspiracy. Rendon, who dropped out of school after the eighth grade, initially was charged with three crimes, including aiding and abetting distribution of methamphetamine.
• Felisha Jewel Gendreau, 32: drug conspiracy. Initially she also was charged with aiding and abetting in the possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
• Rogelio “Roger” Rivas, 29: possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Rivas informed the court he dropped out of school after the ninth grade.
Gendreau received an eight-year deferred prison sentence in Oklahoma County in 2013 on her guilty pleas to possession of meth with intent to distribute, possession of drug paraphernalia, and concealing stolen property, records of the Oklahoma State Courts Network show.)
• Ema Chavez, 35: drug conspiracy. Chavez, too, initially was charged with aiding and abetting in the possession of meth with intent to distribute.
• John Lee Buckaloo, alias “Scrappy,” 35: conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Initially, he was named in 13 counts, including six of aiding and abetting in the distribution of meth.
• John Heavener, 45: distribution of methamphetamine. Heavener was identified in an indictment as one of the imprisoned conspirators.
• Christian Baeza, alias “Flaco,” 29: drug conspiracy. During the conspiracy, methamphetamine was “stored, maintained and distributed at various locations,” including Baeza’s residence in northwest Oklahoma City.
• Isaac Vieyra, alias “Primo,” 25: indicted on 22 counts but agreed to plead guilty to the conspiracy charge.
• Emmanual Cesar Mejia, 25: drug conspiracy.
• Shawn Lyons, 46: drug conspiracy.
• Rogelio “Roger” Rivas, 29: possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Rivas informed the court he dropped out of school after the ninth grade.
• Chance Edwards, 36: drug conspiracy. He was indicted on nine counts.
• Steve Alan McAnally, 37, a 2002 graduate of Prague High School: conspiracy.
McAnally has been in and out of jail and prison for half of his life.
In 2002 he pleaded guilty in Lincoln County to a misdemeanor charge of driving while under the influence of drugs, and received a one-year suspended sentence.
He pleaded guilty in Lincoln County in 2005 to being in possession of illegal drugs, a crime for which he was imprisoned between September 2005 and February 2009.
In 2010 McAnally pleaded guilty in Pottawatomie County to unlawful use of a police radio, possession of a firearm while in the commission of a felony crime, and possession of a stolen vehicle. For those offenses he was imprisoned from May 2011 to September 2014.
In 2016 McAnally pleaded guilty to drug possession after former conviction of a felony, possession of drug paraphernalia, and obstructing a police officer. For those crimes he was imprisoned from April 2016 to June 2018, state Corrections Department records reflect.
McAnally was charged in Pottawatomie County in January 2019 with possession of illegal drugs with intent to distribute, possession of a stolen vehicle, acquiring proceeds from illegal drug activity, attempting to elude a police officer and resisting arrest.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol arrested McAnally in September 2019 in Payne County, where he was charged with being in possession of a stolen vehicle and of a firearm after former conviction of a felony, attempting to elude a law enforcement officer, assault and battery on a law enforcement officer, and operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver’s license.
In November 2019 he was charged again in Pottawatomie with being in possession of a stolen vehicle, endangering others while eluding a law enforcement officer, running a roadblock, and knowingly receiving stolen property.
The Pottawatomie County cases from 2019 are on the district court’s February 23 disposition docket, Oklahoma State Courts Network records show.
• Jonita Cloud, a/k/a Jonita Haas, 39: possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. (Cloud/Haas, who has an associate degree in early childhood education, was originally indicted on 19 felony counts. She is identified in an indictment as one of the drug ring couriers. After the illicit narcotics were sold, incarcerated members of the drug distribution organization “directed third parties, including Jonita Cloud, to collect the drug proceeds,” an indictment alleges. The proceeds “would then be stored until they were needed for further use in drug trafficking.”)
• Jennifer Andrea Plum, alias “Jay Jay,” 42: conspiracy. (She was indicted on nine felony charges, including conspiracy, three counts of aiding and abetting in the distribution of methamphetamine, and five counts of using a telephone to further the distribution of illegal narcotics “during the period from October 2018 through about December 2019”. She, too, was named as a courier.)
Plum was convicted in Cleveland County of possession of a controlled dangerous substance in 2013. The next year she was convicted in Oklahoma County of possession of a controlled dangerous substance.
And in 2015 Plum was convicted in Oklahoma County of engaging in prostitution, distribution of a controlled dangerous substance, tampering with surveillance equipment to commit a crime, acquiring proceeds from drug activity, and using a computer to commit a crime.