ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, February 22, 1997 TAG: 9702240058
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: JAN VERTEFEUILLE
A California career criminal was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Friday for his part in a coast-to-coast PCP-making conspiracy.
Daryl "Cheese" Jackson, who helped obtain chemicals for a PCP manufacturer, assisted the government after he was caught using fake IDs to buy chemicals. If he hadn't received credit for cooperating, his sentence could have been up to 27 years because of his career offender status.
Jackson was the last of the five-member conspiracy to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge James Turk. The leader, Peter Coley, was believed to be one of North America's largest manufacturers of the hallucinogen known as "angel dust."
The group would buy chemicals in California and finish mixing the drug in Appomattox and Charlotte counties, in preparation for retail sale in Washington, D.C., and other East Coast cities. While South Central Los Angeles is the epicenter of PCP manufacturing for the country, the drug is more popular and fetches a better price on the East Coast.
Coley - known as the "godfather of PCP" - his girlfriend and two cousins were convicted in Roanoke federal court, which has jurisdiction over Appomattox and Charlotte counties. One of the cousins was a former government chemist who holds a doctorate in organic chemistry.
Coley was sentenced in November to 41 years in prison.
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