# pardons

recipient_name: Leo Muhammad
slug: leo-muhammad
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Saeed Abdul Muhammad
slug: saeed-abdul-muhammad
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possess with intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; three years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 210 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Dottie Nixon
slug: dottie-nixon
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute a quantity of cocaine and cocaine base within 1,000 feet of a school

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Alonzo Norman
slug: alonzo-norman
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Louisiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base; distribution of more than 50 grams of cocaine base

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Deon Christop Nowell
slug: deon-christop-nowell
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; using and carrying firearm during and in

original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Charles Lee Parker
slug: charles-lee-parker
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Mississippi
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 262 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: William Howard Penn
slug: william-howard-penn
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Louisiana
offense_category: fraud
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute approximately 450 grams of cocaine base; interstate travel in aid of racketeering

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Hope Aree Pinkerton
slug: hope-aree-pinkerton
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture and manufacture five grams or more of methamphetamine actual after having been convicted of a prior felony drug offense


recipient_name: Max Orvel Plumlee
slug: max-orvel-plumlee
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise; distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine (eight counts); use of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime (two counts); distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (

original_sentence:
Life plus 300 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Charles Edward Price
slug: charles-edward-price
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Mississippi
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
292 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $1,500 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017 and unpaid balance of $1,500 fine remitted)


recipient_name: Tony Roger Pullings
slug: tony-roger-pullings
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute cocaine hydrochloride and cocaine base; distribution of cocaine hydrochloride


recipient_name: Dennis Ragland
slug: dennis-ragland
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribution of controlled substances; distribution and possession with the intent to distribute controlled substances; use and carrying of a firearm during and in relation to a drug-trafficking crime; felon in possession of a firearm

original_sentence:
330 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 210 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Ernest Reagan
slug: ernest-reagan
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride; felon in possession of firearms; felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition; possession of firearms in furtherance of a

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 168 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Anthony Jaron Richardson
slug: anthony-jaron-richardson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; use and carry of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon

original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Cory D. Rigmaiden
slug: cory-d-rigmaiden
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Louisiana
offense: Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Jerry K. Roberson
slug: jerry-k-roberson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense: Conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; 96 months' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Samuel Roberts
slug: samuel-roberts
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense: Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (two counts); simple possession of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Charles Bernard Robinson
slug: charles-bernard-robinson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with the intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base (crack); possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
322 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Gerald Robinson
slug: gerald-robinson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess pseudoephedrine knowing it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine; Possession of pseudoephedrine knowing it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine

original_sentence:
220 months' imprisonment; two years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Glenn Vincent Robinson
slug: glenn-vincent-robinson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Oklahoma
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Attempt to manufacture methamphetamine (two counts); possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense (two counts)

original_sentence:
555 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: John Robinson
slug: john-robinson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 200 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Joseph E. Robinson
slug: joseph-e-robinson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Louisiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base with prior narcotics conviction; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base with prior narcotics conviction (seven counts)


recipient_name: William Everett Robinson
slug: william-everett-robinson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime; convicted felon in possession of a firearm/armed career criminal

original_sentence:
Life plus 60 months' imprisonment imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Germaine Roebuck
slug: germaine-roebuck
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Central District of Illinois
offense: Distribution of five or more grams of cocaine base (crack)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Marvin G. Roland
slug: marvin-g-roland
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine; use and carry a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
322 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $10,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019 and unpaid balance of $10,000 fine remitted, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Randolph Rolle
slug: randolph-rolle
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base (crack cocaine), 500 grams or more of cocaine and 100 grams or more of heroin

original_sentence:
292 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 200 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Jerrick Lamont Rorie
slug: jerrick-lamont-rorie
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base and five kilograms or more of cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
264 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 168 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Charlie Lee Ross, Jr.
slug: charlie-lee-ross-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Louisiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $20,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Ted Ross
slug: ted-ross
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense: Conspiracy; money laundering; felon in possession of a firearm
offense_category: firearms
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Tyrone Andre Sain
slug: tyrone-andre-sain
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Attempt to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute 3 kilograms of cocaine;; 2. Possession of a prohibited object, marijuana, in a federal correction institution

original_sentence:
1. 360 months' imprisonment; 2. Two months' imprisonment (consecutive); 1. eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Jose Alfredo Sanchez
slug: jose-alfredo-sanchez
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of North Dakota
offense: Continuing criminal enterprise
offense_category: other
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 210 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Ramon A. Santos
slug: ramon-a-santos
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
260 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $25,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment and unpaid balance of the $25,000 fine remitted)


recipient_name: David M. Scates
slug: david-m-scates
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession of cocaine and aiding and abetting; possession of a firearm by a felon and aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
293 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Aaron A. Scott
slug: aaron-a-scott
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine base within 1,000 feet of a public school

original_sentence:
188 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 18, 2017)


recipient_name: Kenneth Scott
slug: kenneth-scott
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession of pseudoephedrine knowing it will be used to manufacture methamphetamine; felon in possession of a firearm

original_sentence:
296 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Stephen Scott
slug: stephen-scott
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Massachusetts
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession of cocaine base with intent to distribute; unlawful possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number; felon in possession of a firearm


recipient_name: Timothy Wayne Seabury
slug: timothy-wayne-seabury
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine; conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine;attempt to  manufacture methamphetamine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 235 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Burnette Trione Shackleford
slug: burnette-trione-shackleford
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base and five kilograms or more of powder cocaine

original_sentence:
264 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Duane Sheffield
slug: duane-sheffield
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Tennessee
offense: Conspiracy to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Michael William Shranklen
slug: michael-william-shranklen
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense: Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on August 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Jeremy Simmons
slug: jeremy-simmons
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Indiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base (mixture) and less than 500 grams of cocaine (mixture); distribution of 50 grams or more of cocaine base (mixture)(four counts)


recipient_name: Willie Small
slug: willie-small
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Colorado
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 or more grams of cocaine base, aiding and abetting; distribution and possession with intent to distribute 13.382 grams of cocaine base, aiding and abetting; distribution and possession with

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: John Wayne Smith
slug: john-wayne-smith
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense: Possess with intent to distribute and distribute cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
216 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Lawrence Smith
slug: lawrence-smith
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense: Possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base, "crack cocaine"
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
235 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Nathaniel Smith
slug: nathaniel-smith
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of North Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Ronald Benjamin Smith
slug: ronald-benjamin-smith
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine; using and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking felony

original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Teresa Smith
slug: teresa-smith
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense: Conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance - methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
309 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months’ imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Anthony B. Southard
slug: anthony-b-southard
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Ohio
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute approximately 100.3 grams of cocaine base; carrying a firearm during/and in relation to a drug trafficking

original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Thaddeus A. Speed
slug: thaddeus-a-speed
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Central District of Illinois
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 50 or more grams of cocaine base (crack); distribution of 50 or more grams of cocaine base (crack); possession of five grams or more of cocaine base (crack) with intent to distribute it

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 262 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Glen Alan Spicer
slug: glen-alan-spicer
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine; possessed firearms in commerce after felony conviction


recipient_name: Michael Stacey
slug: michael-stacey
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Jubali Dushawn Stokes
slug: jubali-dushawn-stokes
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Wisconsin
offense: Conspiracy to distribute "crack" cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release with condition that petitioner repay $2,010 of "buy money" (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017 and repayment of $2,010 of "buy money" remitted)


recipient_name: Jonathan L. Stout
slug: jonathan-l-stout
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute over five grams of cocaine base; possession of over five grams of cocaine base with intent to distribute; possession of cocaine with intent to distribute

original_sentence:
292 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months’ imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Tyrone Sturdivant
slug: tyrone-sturdivant
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base and to distribute cocaine salt; distribution of cocaine salt (two counts)

original_sentence:
348 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to 240 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Jorge Luis Suarez-Maya
slug: jorge-luis-suarez-maya
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Puerto Rico
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possessing with intent to distribute cocaine; possessing and carrying a revolver during the commission of a drug trafficking crime, as amended

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Raymond Roger Surratt, Jr.
slug: raymond-roger-surratt-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 200 months’ imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Andre Rashad Sutton
slug: andre-rashad-sutton
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base and cocaine hydrochloride; possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base


recipient_name: Lambert Dorell Sweat
slug: lambert-dorell-sweat
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute a quantity of marijuana and cocaine; felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition; using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months’ imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Alan Sylvester
slug: alan-sylvester
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maryland
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 260 months’ imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Jeffrey Tate
slug: jeffrey-tate
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense: Possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Richard Len Taylor, Jr.
slug: richard-len-taylor-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine; using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime and aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
322 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release, $10,142.86 restitution (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Joshua John Terry
slug: joshua-john-terry
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
180 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Charles Edward Thomas
slug: charles-edward-thomas
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute more than five grams of crack cocaine; possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Benjamin C. Thompkins, Jr.
slug: benjamin-c-thompkins-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon; manufacture and possess with intent to distribute marij

original_sentence:
300 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Anthony Dwayne Thompson
slug: anthony-dwayne-thompson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Wayne D. Thompson
slug: wayne-d-thompson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense: Possess with intent to distribute cocaine base within one thousand feet of a school
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; 16 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 220 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: William Thorne
slug: william-thorne
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of New Jersey
offense: Distribute and possess with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
200 months’ imprisonment; four years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: James Mark Thornton
slug: james-mark-thornton
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine

original_sentence:
327 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months’ imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Jim L. Townsend
slug: jim-l-townsend
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
original_sentence: Life imprisonment; (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2018)
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine; possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting in same


recipient_name: Brosarick Ernesto Trammell
slug: brosarick-ernesto-trammell
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Alabama
offense: Distribution of (50) fifty grams or more of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base "crack"
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 60 months' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: James Tranmer
slug: james-tranmer
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense: Conspiracy to import marijuana; conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
420 months’ imprisonment; eight years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Melvin Tucker
slug: melvin-tucker
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base and to distribute cocaine salt after a conviction for a felony drug offense; distribution and aiding and abetting the distribution of 12.39 grams of cocaine base after a conviction


recipient_name: John Robinson Turner
slug: john-robinson-turner
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
420 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Antonio Luna Valdez, Jr.
slug: antonio-luna-valdez-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Louisiana
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, cocaine base and marijuana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; no supervised release term (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 168 months’ imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Donald LeRoy Wagaman
slug: donald-leroy-wagaman
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense: Manufacture in excess of 50 grams of methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
185 months’ imprisonment; four years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Yakez Walker
slug: yakez-walker
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Florida
offense: Distribution of 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months’ imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Eric Arthur Walton
slug: eric-arthur-walton
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. & 2. Northern District of West Virginia
offense_category: fraud
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute marijuana; conspiracy to launder monetary instruments; interstate transportation in aid of racketeering (2 counts); laundering of monetary instruments; aiding and abetting in the possess

original_sentence:
1. Life imprisonment; 2. 60 months' imprisonment; 1. 10 years' supervised release; $20,000 fine; 2. three years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 387 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Charles Ward
slug: charles-ward
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of West Virginia
offense: Aiding and abetting in the distribution of 28.7 grams of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
200 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 151 months’ imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Jeffrey Ward
slug: jeffrey-ward
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession and distribution of 57.9 grams cocaine base; possession and distribution of 70.2 grams cocaine base

original_sentence:
262 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug abuse treatment)


recipient_name: Timmy Don Ware
slug: timmy-don-ware
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Oklahoma
offense_category: fraud
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Participation in racketeering activities; conspiracy to participate in a criminal racketeering enterprise; conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin; possession with intent to distribute heroin (three counts); use of telephone to facilitate a

original_sentence:
33 years’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Dan Russell Watson
slug: dan-russell-watson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense: Conspiracy to manufacture at least 500 grams of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $4,959.00 restitution (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019 and unpaid balance of the $4,959 restitution obligation remitted, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Raymond Allen Watts
slug: raymond-allen-watts
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maryland
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base commonly known as crack; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon

original_sentence:
292 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 200 months’ imprisonment)


recipient_name: Donald Welch
slug: donald-welch
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine; carrying or possessing a firearm during and relation to a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
300 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Derrick White
slug: derrick-white
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Louisiana
offense: Distribution of 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months’ imprisonment)


recipient_name: Carlos Whitehead
slug: carlos-whitehead
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Manufacture and possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession of heroin; possession of cocaine; possession of marijuana

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Winston Wilkins
slug: winston-wilkins
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Florida
offense: Distribution of crack cocaine (two counts)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release; $15,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019 and unpaid balance of $15,000 fine remitted, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug abuse treatment)


recipient_name: Glenn Williams
slug: glenn-williams
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base (crack)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
480 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release; $17,050 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Harry David Williams
slug: harry-david-williams
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Oklahoma
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine; maintaining a residence to facilitate the distribution of methamphetamine, aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Maurice Victor Williams
slug: maurice-victor-williams
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense: Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of "crack" cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Robert Lee Williams
slug: robert-lee-williams
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of North Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine hydrochloride
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017.)


recipient_name: Marshall R. Wilson
slug: marshall-r-wilson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Kansas
offense: Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
180 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: William Wilson
slug: william-wilson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Louisiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base ("crack")


recipient_name: Gregory C. Womack
slug: gregory-c-womack
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Oklahoma
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine; manufacturing methamphetamine; and maintaining a place for the manufacture of methamphetamine

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Marshane Woods
slug: marshane-woods
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine hydrochloride and 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months)


recipient_name: Ayande Yearwood
slug: ayande-yearwood
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maryland
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release; $17,500 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019 and unpaid balance of $17,500 fine remitted when his sentence expires, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug abuse treatment, unpaid remainder of fine remitted)


recipient_name: Antonio Antwain Young
slug: antonio-antwain-young
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 19, 2017)


recipient_name: Connie Jermaine Young
slug: connie-jermaine-young
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; no supervised release term (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 19, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in the residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Pablo Abrugar Abulencia
slug: pablo-abrugar-abulencia
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense: Conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 205 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Christopher Almaguer
slug: christopher-almaguer
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine; distribution of more than 50 grams of methamphetamine (two counts); possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; causing another to engage in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity

original_sentence:
420 months' imprisonment (amended to 360 months' imprisonment); five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Jerry Jerome Anderson
slug: jerry-jerome-anderson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Georgia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base; continuing criminal enterprise; continuous violations of the Controlled Substances Act by occupying the position of management and organizer; conducting financial transactions with proceeds from illegal drug activities

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2020)


recipient_name: Turner Ashe
slug: turner-ashe
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Indiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and/or distribution of five kilograms or more of cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Roland J. Bailey
slug: roland-j-bailey
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Columbia
offense: Unlawful possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Terrance Baker
slug: terrance-baker
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Michigan
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute controlled substance; possession of a firearm in furtherance of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Timothy Barker
slug: timothy-barker
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of New York
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute; possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Darryl K. Barnes
slug: darryl-k-barnes
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Pennsylvania
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession of more than 50 grams of cocaine base "crack" with intent to distribute; possession of cocaine with intent to distribute; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; felon in possession of a firearm

original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Blake Demond Beard
slug: blake-demond-beard
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Georgia
offense: Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (two counts)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Calvin Biggs
slug: calvin-biggs
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Illinois
offense: Possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine; possession of a firearm by a felon
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 262 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Anthony Wayne Billings
slug: anthony-wayne-billings
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of West Virginia
offense: Distribution of cocaine base within 1000 feet of a playground
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Wayne Allen Bledsoe, Jr.
slug: wayne-allen-bledsoe-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute "crack" cocaine; aiding and abetting; money laundering

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $3,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Robert Booker
slug: robert-booker
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Indiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine; operate a crack house; possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Ulysses Simon Bouie
slug: ulysses-simon-bouie
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of five kilograms or more of cocaine; conspiracy to commit money laundering

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Antwan Boyd
slug: antwan-boyd
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Felon in possession of a firearm; possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Henry Robert Brown
slug: henry-robert-brown
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Wisconsin
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, cocaine base, marijuana, and a mixture containing heroin and fentanyl; aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $450,000 money judgment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 292 months' imprisonment and unpaid balance of $450,000 money judgment remitted when his sentence expires.)


recipient_name: Michael Dwight Brown
slug: michael-dwight-brown
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maryland
offense: Distribution of cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Raymond Brown
slug: raymond-brown
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute more than five grams of cocaine base (crack); possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment plus 60 months'; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Valarian Jaymonn Brown
slug: valarian-jaymonn-brown
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine; conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana; possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 262 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: William Brown
slug: william-brown
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Kentucky
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base (crack cocaine); possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; aiding and abetting to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; aiding and abetting to distribute cocaine base (crack cocaine)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Damon Burkhalter
slug: damon-burkhalter
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Louisiana
offense: Conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Clarence Rex Burnell
slug: clarence-rex-burnell
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Wyoming
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine; distribution of methamphetamine and aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $5,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019 and unpaid balance of $5,000 fine remitted, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Latasha Sherri Butler
slug: latasha-sherri-butler
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense: Distribution of 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: James Toves Cabaccang
slug: james-toves-cabaccang
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Guam
offense: Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine; conspiracy to launder monetary instruments
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 292 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Timothy Wayne Calhoun
slug: timothy-wayne-calhoun
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute cocaine base

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Rickey Calloway
slug: rickey-calloway
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Kentucky
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute cocaine; attempt possession with intent to distribute cocaine (two counts); interstate travel and act in aid of illegal business enterprise involving narcotics (two counts); possession of a firearm by a convicted felon

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Adrian Antoine Campbell
slug: adrian-antoine-campbell
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Georgia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine; possession with intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Paul Anthony Cass
slug: paul-anthony-cass
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base; distribution and possession with intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing cocaine base (11 counts); maintaining a place for the purpose of manufacturing and distributing a mixture and substance containing cocaine base


recipient_name: Calvin Caver
slug: calvin-caver
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Ohio
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (two counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Alberto Chahia
slug: alberto-chahia
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of North Dakota
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute a controlled substance; possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Chris Coleman
slug: chris-coleman
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Missouri
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base and cocaine; aiding and abetting the distribution of cocaine base

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Kelvin Dandrea Cotton
slug: kelvin-dandrea-cotton
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Texas
offense: Aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $2,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment and unpaid balance of $2,000 fine remitted)


recipient_name: Melvin Couch
slug: melvin-couch
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Kentucky
offense: Conspiracy to distribute 10 kilograms or more of cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $10,000,000 forfeiture (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Terrance Cox
slug: terrance-cox
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Tennessee
offense: Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
188 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Iris Yolanda Davila
slug: iris-yolanda-davila
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Pennsylvania
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute more than 1000 grams of heroin and 50 grams of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute heroin

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Lawrence Stafford Davis
slug: lawrence-stafford-davis
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute and distribution of five grams or more of cocaine base and aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
228 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Robin Marie Davis
slug: robin-marie-davis
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Virginia
offense: Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base and 500 grams or more of cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Quincy Dennis
slug: quincy-dennis
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Southern District of Ohio; 2. Eastern District of Kentucky; December 13, 2004
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Attempt to distribute cocaine base (crack); possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine;; 2. Possession of a prohibited object (marijuana) by a federal inmate

original_sentence:
1. Life Imprisonment; two years' supervised release; $30,000 fine;; 2. Six months' imprisonment (consecutive); two years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment and unpaid balance of the $30,000 fine remitted, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Christopher M. DePree
slug: christopher-m-depree
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense: Distribution of a substance containing five grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
188 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 16, 2017)


recipient_name: Vandarrell Leon Doe
slug: vandarrell-leon-doe
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Georgia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; manufacture of 50 grams or more of cocaine base

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 262 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Donald Wayne Dowling
slug: donald-wayne-dowling
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute and a controlled substance, methamphetamine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 15 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Deante Drake
slug: deante-drake
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of West Virginia
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
292 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Arthur Edmonds
slug: arthur-edmonds
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of New Jersey
offense: Controlled substance; sell, distribute, possess, dispense
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
327 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Daryl Edwards
slug: daryl-edwards
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
original_sentence: Life imprisonment; (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment)
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; distribution of 50 grams or more of cocaine base


recipient_name: Billy Ray Fairley, Sr.
slug: billy-ray-fairley-sr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of North Carolina
offense: Distributed cocaine base (crack)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
288 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Dujuan Farrow
slug: dujuan-farrow
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Stacey Lane Fisher
slug: stacey-lane-fisher
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine; prohibited person in possession of ammunition

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 168 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Carroll Fletcher
slug: carroll-fletcher
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Columbia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribute more than 15 kilograms of cocaine, 1.5 kilograms or more of cocaine base and 20 grams or more of heroin; maintaining a residence for manufacturing, distributing, and using a controlled substance; unlawful distribution of 50 grams or more of cocaine base; unlawful possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Leonard Lyle Fontenot
slug: leonard-lyle-fontenot
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Louisiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base, cocaine, methylenedioxyamphetamine, and marijuana; possession with intent to distribute cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; six years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Donnell Bartholomew Ford
slug: donnell-bartholomew-ford
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine; conspiracy to commit money laundering; attempted possession with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $10,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment and unpaid balance of the $10,000 fine remitted when his sentence expires)


recipient_name: German Gallegos
slug: german-gallegos
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Importing a quantity more than 100 kilograms of marijuana; possessing with intent to distribute a quantity more than 100 kilograms of marijuana;; 2. Violation of supervised release (Importation of a controlled substance; possession with intent to distribute)

original_sentence:
1. 240 months' imprisonment;; 2. 24 months' imprisonment (20 months' concurrent, four consecutive); eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Jeffery Garrett
slug: jeffery-garrett
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Indiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Knowingly possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing cocaine base; possession of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
Life plus 60 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Darryl C. Gillard
slug: darryl-c-gillard
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Louisiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride and cocaine base; distribution of cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Ernest Milton Glover
slug: ernest-milton-glover
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Columbia
offense_category: other
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute one kilogram or more of phencyclidine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Ernest Gonzalez
slug: ernest-gonzalez
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Texas
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 210 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Pablo Gonzalez, Jr.
slug: pablo-gonzalez-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana; conspiracy to commit money laundering

original_sentence:
135 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Kenneth Wayne Gragg
slug: kenneth-wayne-gragg
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine (two counts); possession of a firearm and ammunition in and affecting interstate commerce by convicted felon; carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Rogel Grant
slug: rogel-grant
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Pennsylvania
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Distribution of more than five grams fo cocaine base ("crack"); distribution of more than 50 grams of cocaine base ("crack"); possession with intent to distribute more than five grams of cocaine base ("crack")


recipient_name: Fontelle Ricardo Groves
slug: fontelle-ricardo-groves
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Supervised release violation (Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine);; 2. Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base (crack)

original_sentence:
1. 51 months' imprisonment;; 2. 262 months' imprisonment (concurrent); five years' supervised release, $2,100 restitution (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Antonio Merlin Harmon
slug: antonio-merlin-harmon
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of 500 grams or more of cocaine and five grams or more of cocaine base; possession of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Emma Jean Harmon
slug: emma-jean-harmon
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base (two counts); distribution of marijuana (two counts); distribution of cocaine base (two counts); convicted felon in possession of firearms


recipient_name: Douglas Eugene Harms
slug: douglas-eugene-harms
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: fraud
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Manufacture and distribution of 50 grams or more, of methamphetamine actual, distribution of methamphetamine to a person under age 21; distribution and possession of pseudoephedrine with intent to manufacture methamphetamine after previous conviction of a felony drug offense; interstate travel or transportation in aid of racketeering enterprise

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 196 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Brian Keith Harvey
slug: brian-keith-harvey
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
original_sentence: Life imprisonment; (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2018)
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine


recipient_name: Julius Shaner Hayes
slug: julius-shaner-hayes
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Kansas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Supervised release violation;; 2. Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine

original_sentence:
1. 30 months' imprisonment;; 2. 240 months' imprisonment (consecutive); 10 years supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Christopher Lamont Hill
slug: christopher-lamont-hill
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute amd to distribute cocaine and cocaine base; distribution of crack cocaine and aiding and abetting (three counts); possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; using a communication facility to facilitate a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
Life plus 84 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 264 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Macheo Hill
slug: macheo-hill
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute  in excess of five kilograms of cocaine; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and aiding and abetting (two counts); possession with intent to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting; convicted felon in possession of ammunition and aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 324 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Wesley Hodge
slug: wesley-hodge
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months', conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Roy Lee Hodgkiss
slug: roy-lee-hodgkiss
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Continuing criminal enterprise; manufacture of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) and aiding and abetting; possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute same (amphetamine, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana) and aiding and abetting (18 counts); money laundering and aiding and abetting (two counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Adrien Tyrell Horne
slug: adrien-tyrell-horne
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base (crack), possession of a firearm in relation to drug trafficking

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Leonard Hoskins
slug: leonard-hoskins
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Indiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base and less than 500 grams of cocaine hydrochloride

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Willard Wayne Howard
slug: willard-wayne-howard
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess five kilograms or more of cocaine; attempt to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine


recipient_name: David Louis Hunter
slug: david-louis-hunter
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Florida
offense: Possession with intent to distribute cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 210 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Jesse Jackson
slug: jesse-jackson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Nevada
offense: Conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Robert Jackson, Sr.
slug: robert-jackson-sr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute crack cocaine; possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine (three counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Tony Lanier Jackson
slug: tony-lanier-jackson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Georgia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base and cocaine hydrochloride


recipient_name: Jeffrey Matthew Jeanetta
slug: jeffrey-matthew-jeanetta
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Minnesota
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute in excess of 500 grams or methamphetamine; distribution of in excess of 50 grams of methamphetamine; possession of a firearm by a felon

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Randy R. Jefferson
slug: randy-r-jefferson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Wisconsin
offense: Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
294 months' imprisonment; 10 years supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Lonnie Jennings
slug: lonnie-jennings
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Illinois
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine; distribution of crack cocaine

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Audrey Louis Johnson, Jr.
slug: audrey-louis-johnson-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Kentucky
offense: Possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base, criminal forfeiture
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
120 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Timmy Nathan Johnson
slug: timmy-nathan-johnson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a substance containing methamphetamine; money laundering; felon in possession of a firearm; unlawful drug use in possession of a firearm

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Timothy Terell Johnson
slug: timothy-terell-johnson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Tony Johnson
slug: tony-johnson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Indiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute in excess of 50 grams of cocaine base (mixture), 5 kilograms of cocaine and marijuana (mixture)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 210 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Lamell T. Jones
slug: lamell-t-jones
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Missouri
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base (crack); conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base (crack); aided and abetted in the possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base (crack); possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (crack)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; four years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 262 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Leonard Jones
slug: leonard-jones
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base, cocaine, and MDMA (ecstasy)


recipient_name: Dorian Jordan
slug: dorian-jordan
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Randolph Key
slug: randolph-key
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 120 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Safarra Kimmons
slug: safarra-kimmons
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Mississippi
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing cocaine base;; 2. supervised release violation (Distribution in excess of 50 grams of cocaine base)

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Oscar Lopez, aka Oscar Lopez-Rivera
slug: oscar-lopez-aka-oscar-lopez-rivera
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Illinois
offense_category: violent crime
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Seditious conspiracy; interference with interstate commerce by threats or violence; possession of an unregistered firearm; carrying firearms during the commission of violent crimes; interstate transportation of firearms with the intent to commit violent crimes; interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle (four counts);; 2. Conspiracy to escape, to transport explosives with intent to kill and injure people, and to destroy government buildings and property; aiding and abetting travel in interstate commerce to carry on arson (two counts); using a telephone to carry on arson (two counts)

original_sentence:
1. 55 years’ imprisonment; 2. 15 years’ imprisonment (consecutive) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017.)


recipient_name: Johnny Marton Lott
slug: johnny-marton-lott
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Oklahoma
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine; distribution of methamphetamine (three counts); maintaining a residence for the manufacture of methamphetamine

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Rodney Lamont Love
slug: rodney-lamont-love
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute Dilaudid (two counts); possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking (three counts); felon in possession of firearms (three counts); distribute Dilaudid

original_sentence:
Life plus 55 years' imprisonment; 15 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 322 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Dwight J. Loving
slug: dwight-j-loving
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: U.S. Army Court Martial
offense: Premeditated murder; felony murder; attempted murder; armed robbery (four counts);
offense_category: violent crime
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Death sentence, dishonorable discharge, and forfeiture of all pay and allowances () (Terms: Death sentence commuted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, on the condition that Loving shall never have any rights, privileges, claims, or benefits arising under the parole and suspension or remission of sentence laws of the United States and the regulations promulgated thereunder governing federal prisoners confined in any penal institution.)


recipient_name: Connie Lee Lyons
slug: connie-lee-lyons
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess more than 500 grams or cocaine with intent to manufacture cocaine base, attempt to possess 500 grams of more of cocaine with intent to manufacture cocaine base


recipient_name: Chelsea Elizabeth Manning
slug: chelsea-elizabeth-manning
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: U.S. Army Court Martial
offense_category: other
original_sentence: 35 years’ imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017.)
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
One specification of wrongful and wanton publication to the internet intelligence belonging to the United States; five specifications of stealing, purloining or knowingly converting U.S. government records; six specifications of willful communication of information relating to the national defense; one specification of willful communication of information in unlawful possession; one specification of willful communication of information relating to the national defense by exceeding authorized access to a U.S. government computer; one specification of willful communication of information relating to the national defense obtained by accessing a U.S. government computer; five specifications of failure to obey order or regulation


recipient_name: Adan Nieves Martinez
slug: adan-nieves-martinez
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of North Dakota
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute controlled substance
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Damand Matthews
slug: damand-matthews
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Indiana
offense: Conspiracy to distribute in excess of 50 grams of cocaine base and less than 500 grams of cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment and unpaid balance of $1,000 fine remitted at the time of his release, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Steven McKelvey
slug: steven-mckelvey
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of crack cocaine; conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Delvin McKinney
slug: delvin-mckinney
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school (four counts); possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine; possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of crack cocaine


recipient_name: Alphonse Milan
slug: alphonse-milan
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Louisiana
offense: Distribution of cocaine base (three counts)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
212 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Bobby Eugene Mitchell
slug: bobby-eugene-mitchell
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base and a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine hydrochloride; use and carrying of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime; felon in possession of a firearm

original_sentence:
Life plus 60 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 262 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Tony Mitchell
slug: tony-mitchell
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine in excess of 50 grams; felon in possession of a firearm (two counts)


recipient_name: Silas Junior Mobley
slug: silas-junior-mobley
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine; attempt to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting the same

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Tracy Moorehead
slug: tracy-moorehead
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense: Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams of more of cocaine base after a prior felony drug conviction
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 120 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Cesar Moreno, Sr.
slug: cesar-moreno-sr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of 1,000 kilograms of marijuana; conspiracy to commit money laundering

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $25,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment and unpaid balance of the $25,000 fine remitted when his sentence expires)


recipient_name: Eduardo Moreno
slug: eduardo-moreno
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of 1,000 kilograms of marijuana; money laundering, aiding and abetting (two counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $25,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment and unpaid balance of the $25,000 fine remitted when his sentence expires)


recipient_name: Doyle Ray Morgan
slug: doyle-ray-morgan
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Stefan Valenti Mosley
slug: stefan-valenti-mosley
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maryland
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, more than 50 kilograms of cocaine base and more than one kilogram of PCP; possession with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine (five counts); possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine (three counts); felon in possession

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Aubrey Valdez Moton
slug: aubrey-valdez-moton
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine, five grams or more of cocaine base, and a quantity of marijuana

original_sentence:
235 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Muff't Ishmael Mustaafa
slug: mufft-ishmael-mustaafa
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Central District of Illinois; 2. Northern District of Illinois; April 30, 2003
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Possession of cocaine base "crack" with intent to distribute, possession of a firearm by a felon;; 2. Possession of a firearm by a felon

original_sentence:
1. 240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; 2. 41 months' imprisonment (27 months' consecutive and 14 months' concurrent); two years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Andre Nelson
slug: andre-nelson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and posses with intent to distribute a mixture or substance containing cocaine and cocaine base


recipient_name: Gregory Newton
slug: gregory-newton
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense: Possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Kenya Lasale Nicholson
slug: kenya-lasale-nicholson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Oklahoma
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine base, cocaine powder and marijuana; use of a communication facility to facilitate the distribution of cocaine powder, cocaine base and marijuana (eight counts); possession with intent to distribute cocaine powder, aiding and abetting; attempting to posses with intent to distribute cocaine powder

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 324 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Wesley Eugene Northington
slug: wesley-eugene-northington
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Indiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Distribution of five grams or more of cocaine base within 1,000 feet of a school; possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; felon in possession of a firearm

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Frank Vincent Okiyama
slug: frank-vincent-okiyama
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. & 2. District of Guam
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine; distribution of methamphetamine; 2. Felon in possession of firearms

original_sentence:
1. 327 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release; 2. 10 years' imprisonment (consecutive); three years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Myron Dejuan Orr
slug: myron-dejuan-orr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine; distribution of crack cocaine (four counts); possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of crack cocaine; felon in possession of a firearm

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Arboleda A. Ortiz
slug: arboleda-a-ortiz
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Missouri
offense_category: violent crime
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute cocaine; aiding and abetting murder in relation of a drug trafficking crime; interstate travel with intent to commit murder for hire

original_sentence:
Death sentence; five years’ supervised release (Terms: Death sentence commuted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.)


recipient_name: William Ortiz
slug: william-ortiz
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of New York
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
600 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Michael Shavon Pate
slug: michael-shavon-pate
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $800 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Jose Ramiro Pena
slug: jose-ramiro-pena
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Montana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute of methamphetamine; possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 15 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 262 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: David Javier Perez
slug: david-javier-perez
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Virginia
offense: Distribution of a measurable quantity of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
130 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Zeteral Perkins
slug: zeteral-perkins
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base; distribution of more than 50 grams of cocaine base; 2. Violation of supervised release (Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base)

original_sentence:
1. 240 months' imprisonment;; 2. 24 months' imprisonment (consecutive); 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Gethsemane Pita
slug: gethsemane-pita
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Hawaii
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more cocaine base, possession with intent to distribute 5 grams or more cocaine base


recipient_name: Raul Portillo
slug: raul-portillo
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense: Aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 262 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Kenneth Jay Putensen
slug: kenneth-jay-putensen
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute 50 grams or more of actual (pure) methamphetamine to distribute and possess pseudoephedrine and to possess pseudoephedrine, after being convicted of two felony drug offenses;; 2. Supervised release violation (Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana)

original_sentence:
1. 264 months' imprisonment;; 2. 46 months' imprisonment (concurrent); 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Miguel Angel Quintanilla
slug: miguel-angel-quintanilla
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Indiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine; conspiracy to launder monetary instruments


recipient_name: Kunta Kenta Redd
slug: kunta-kenta-redd
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base and quantity of cocaine

original_sentence:
324 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Bobby Wayne Reed
slug: bobby-wayne-reed
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute cocaine 50 grams or more of cocaine base and five kilograms or more of cocaine; distribution of cocaine; opening and maintaining a place for distribution of a controlled substance and aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $25,000.00 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment and unpaid balance of $25,000 fine remitted when his sentence expires)


recipient_name: Rodrikus Marshun Robinson
slug: rodrikus-marshun-robinson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (crack); possessed with intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride


recipient_name: Michael Sain
slug: michael-sain
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Arkansas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Possession with intent to distribute more that 500 grams of cocaine hydrochloride;; 2. Failure to appear

original_sentence:
1. 210 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release;; 2. 24 months' imprisonment (consecutive); three years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Nathaniel Salery
slug: nathaniel-salery
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Continuing criminal enterprise; distribution of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Bruce Samuels
slug: bruce-samuels
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base and heroin; possession with intent to distribute cocaine


recipient_name: Jermaine Darnell Samuels
slug: jermaine-darnell-samuels
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Distribution of cocaine base (two counts), possession with intent to distribute at least 50 grams of cocaine base and marijuana

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Axel Santos-Cruz
slug: axel-santos-cruz
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Pennsylvania
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 1,000 grams of heroin and 50 grams of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute heroin


recipient_name: Stephen Dale Schnepf
slug: stephen-dale-schnepf
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession of a firearm by a felon; possession of a firearm with obliterated serial number; possession with intent to distribute 32.5 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture; conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture after previous convicted of a felony drug offense; use of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Adrian Scott
slug: adrian-scott
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maryland
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a mixture containing heroin and a mixture containing Fentanyl; possession with intent to distribute a mixture containing Fentanyl and aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 120 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Gino Velez Scott
slug: gino-velez-scott
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Southern District of Florida
offense_category: fraud
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine;; 2. Supervised release violation (Interstate travel in aid of racketeering)

original_sentence:
1. Life imprisonment;; 2. 24 months' imprisonment (consecutive); 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Daryl Joseph Shaw
slug: daryl-joseph-shaw
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Central District Illinois
offense: Conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine; manufacture of methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Kandis Karlotta Shipman
slug: kandis-karlotta-shipman
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute actual methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Jeffery Wayne Shondel
slug: jeffery-wayne-shondel
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense: Manufacture of methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Brian Lafonta Smith
slug: brian-lafonta-smith
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Tennessee
offense: Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; convicted felon in possession of a firearm
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 150 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Vincent B. Snyder
slug: vincent-b-snyder
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base (two counts)

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Kelzin Squirewell
slug: kelzin-squirewell
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition; unlawful possession with intent to distribute more than five grams of cocaine base, less than 500 grams of cocaine, and less than 50 kilograms of marijuana; using and carrying of a firearm during and in relation to, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of, a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 138 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Dashon Coverta Starks
slug: dashon-coverta-starks
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Middle District of Florida; 2. Middle District of Florida; October 31, 2005
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Conspiracy to manufacture and posses with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base; manufacturing five grams or more of cocaine base;; 2. supervised release violation (Possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams or cocaine base)

original_sentence:
1. 360 months' imprisonment;; 2. 48 months' imprisonment (consecutive); eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 288 months' imprisonment, or 240 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: John E. Stewart
slug: john-e-stewart
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Kentucky
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to knowingly and intentionally possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine; aiding and abetting knowingly and intentionally possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine (two counts)


recipient_name: Duffy Lynn Striker
slug: duffy-lynn-striker
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine (two counts); possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime (two counts); felon in possession of a firearm (three counts)

original_sentence:
430 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Carlton Christopher Sullivan
slug: carlton-christopher-sullivan
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maryland
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more of cocaine base; felon in possession of firearm

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Tyreese R. Taylor
slug: tyreese-r-taylor
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Wisconsin
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Distribution of five grams or more of a mixture or substance containing cocaine base (two counts); distribution of 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of a mixture or substance containing cocaine base

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Dorminic Thomas
slug: dorminic-thomas
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Tennessee
offense: Possession with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
24 years' and 4 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Dwight A. Thomas
slug: dwight-a-thomas
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Missouri
offense: Distribution of crack cocaine; possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Gary Thomas
slug: gary-thomas
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of more than five kilograms of cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Preston Bernard Thomas
slug: preston-bernard-thomas
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; maintaining a place for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, and using cocaine and cocaine base


recipient_name: Mark J. Thornton
slug: mark-j-thornton
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Ohio
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of five kilograms of cocaine and in excess of 50 grams of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute in excess of 500 grams of cocaine; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Curtis Daryle Tinsley
slug: curtis-daryle-tinsley
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime; distribution of more than 50 grams of cocaine base

original_sentence:
322 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 271 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Ronald Toms
slug: ronald-toms
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Columbia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of cocaine base; unlawful distribution of 50 grams or more cocaine base; using and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking offense; carry a pistol without a license

original_sentence:
Life plus 60 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 352 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Andres Wilfredo Torriente
slug: andres-wilfredo-torriente
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Conspiracy to posses with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine; 2. Violation of supervised release

original_sentence:
1. 240 months' imprisonment; 2. 12 months' imprisonment (consecutive); 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 163 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Jessie L. Traylor
slug: jessie-l-traylor
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Central District Illinois
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine and cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine; use of a telephone in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime


recipient_name: Yolanda Triana
slug: yolanda-triana
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Oklahoma
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
181 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Matthew Arrington Turner
slug: matthew-arrington-turner
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Central District of Illinois
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
Life plus 60 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Warren Lee Underwood
slug: warren-lee-underwood
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of California
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance; attempt to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute; felon in possession of a firearm


recipient_name: David Vaught
slug: david-vaught
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 324 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Ruben Velez
slug: ruben-velez
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Pennsylvania
offense: Possession with intent to distribute controlled substances (two counts)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $2,500 (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Rashard Kimako Wagner
slug: rashard-kimako-wagner
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base; using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Kelly Joe Walker
slug: kelly-joe-walker
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture and 50 grams or more of methamphetamine actual after a felony drug conviction; possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture after a felony drug conviction

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Raymond M. Walker, III
slug: raymond-m-walker-iii
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Indiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of cocaine base; distribution of cocaine base in excess of 5 grams (two counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Timothy Michael Walker
slug: timothy-michael-walker
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base; aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base


recipient_name: Ralph Darrell Warren
slug: ralph-darrell-warren
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Ohio
offense_category: fraud
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Continuing criminal enterprise; conspiracy to distribute cocaine; possession with intent to distribute cocaine; possession with intent to distribute cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school; interstate travel in aid of racketeering enterprise; false statements in purchase of firearms (three counts); possession of a firearm by prohibited person

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 16 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Kenneth Gary Washington
slug: kenneth-gary-washington
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Louisiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana; conspiracy to commit money laundering; conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine; unlawful use of communication facility (two counts)


recipient_name: Timothy Juan Washington
slug: timothy-juan-washington
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Georgia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute at least 50 grams of methamphetamine; possession with intent to distribute at least five grams of methamphetamine

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 120 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Gregory Antonio Webber
slug: gregory-antonio-webber
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute at least 50 grams of "crack" cocaine; possession of a firearm during the commission of a drug trafficking crime; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon

original_sentence:
322 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $1,500 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment and unpaid balance of $1,000 fine remitted when his sentence expires, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Terrance Wellons
slug: terrance-wellons
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Distribution of cocaine base (two counts); possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (three counts); felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 924 (A)(2); carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime (two counts)

original_sentence:
420 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Brian Lee Wells
slug: brian-lee-wells
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture at least 500 grams methamphetamine mixture and at least 5 grams methamphetamine actual

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $10,449.50 restitution (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Robert James Pearson White
slug: robert-james-pearson-white
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment and unpaid balance of $200,000 forfeiture obligation remitted when his sentence expires, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Alfred Leonard Williams
slug: alfred-leonard-williams
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Illinois
offense: Conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine and cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $2,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Kevin Williams
slug: kevin-williams
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine hydrochloride; possession with intent to distribute at least 50 grams of cocaine base

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Omar Demortius Williams
slug: omar-demortius-williams
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute at least 50 grams of "crack cocaine", a Schedule II narcotic drug controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a public school; possession with intent to distribute "crack cocaine", a Schedule II narcotic drug controlled substance

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment and unpaid balance of the $1,000 fine remitted when his sentence expires)


recipient_name: Randy Gean Williams
slug: randy-gean-williams
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base and cocaine; money laundering

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Eric Wilson
slug: eric-wilson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Illinois
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise; recruitment of employees under the age of 18; distribution of a controlled substance (12 counts); use of a communication facility, namely a telephone, in the furtherance of a drug trafficking crime (17 counts); laundering of monetary instruments; possession and use of a firearm in the commission of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
Life plus five years' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 424 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Jermaine Ali Wilson
slug: jermaine-ali-wilson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Georgia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base and to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute a quantity of cocaine hydrochloride; attempt to possess with intent to distribute approximately one kilogram of cocaine hydrochloride

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 262 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: John F. Winkelman, Jr.
slug: john-f-winkelman-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Pennsylvania
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution in excess of five kilograms of cocaine and being over the age of 18, distributed or aided the distribution of cocaine to individuals under the age of 21; distribution of cocaine; possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine (four counts); possession with intent to distribute and distribution of more than 500 grams of cocaine, aid and abet; possession of firearm in furtherance of felony drug trafficking offenses


recipient_name: Keith Wooten
slug: keith-wooten
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of New Jersey
offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $4,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Brenz Kaiwaena Wright
slug: brenz-kaiwaena-wright
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Georgia
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
327 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment)


recipient_name: Michael Wayne Wright
slug: michael-wayne-wright
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to posses with intent to distribute crack; possession with intent to distribute crack (three counts)

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 17, 2017)


recipient_name: Richard Arthur Wright
slug: richard-arthur-wright
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2017-01-17
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Central District of California
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine; possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine (two counts); manufacturing of methamphetamine

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; 10 years supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on January 17, 2019, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment)


recipient_name: Kendrick Tyshawn Akins
slug: kendrick-tyshawn-akins
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, or possess with intent to manufacture or distribute cocaine, cocaine base, and marijuana

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Dale Wayne Aldridge
slug: dale-wayne-aldridge
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense: Conspiracy to distribute at least 500 grams of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Demetri D. Alexander
slug: demetri-d-alexander
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Kansas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture cocaine base "crack" and to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base "crack"; possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Billy Mel Alford
slug: billy-mel-alford
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Importation of a quantity of marijuana (three counts); possession with intent to distribute a quantity of marijuana (three counts)

original_sentence:
480 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $200,000 fine (July 22, 1997); amended to 480 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $150,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment, and unpaid balance of $150,000 fine remitted at the time of his release.)


recipient_name: Antonio Jose Alonzo
slug: antonio-jose-alonzo
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of North Dakota
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute controlled substances
offense_category: other
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to 292 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Maurice Anderson
slug: maurice-anderson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of a mixture or substance containing cocaine

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Orasama Andrews
slug: orasama-andrews
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Middle District of Georgia; 2. Middle District of Georgia; December 17, 2009
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Distribution of more than five grams of cocaine base; distribution of more than 50 grams of cocaine base; 2. Supervised release violation (Distribution of cocaine base)

original_sentence:
1. Life imprisonment; 2. 24 months' imprisonment (consecutive); 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Darrell Atkins
slug: darrell-atkins
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Michigan
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to deliver cocaine and crack cocaine; distribution of crack cocaine (three counts)

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $10,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Hilario Avila
slug: hilario-avila
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Central District of California; 2. Central District of California; May 9, 2005
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine; 2. Supervised release violation (Possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine)

original_sentence:
1. 240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; 2. 33 months’ imprisonment (concurrent) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Handy Bailey, Jr.
slug: handy-bailey-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense: Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (two counts)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Darryl Jerome Baker
slug: darryl-jerome-baker
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more of cocaine base

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to 360 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Johnny Ray Basham
slug: johnny-ray-basham
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Oklahoma
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine; possession of a firearm during drug trafficking crime; possession of a firearm after former conviction of a felony

original_sentence:
324 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Rodney Bates
slug: rodney-bates
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Tennessee
offense: Possession with intent to distribute 24.1 grams of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
188 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on July 31, 2017.)


recipient_name: Roger Jerome Baylor
slug: roger-jerome-baylor
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; distribution of cocaine base

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; amended to 292 months' imprisonment (December 13, 2010); amended to 240 months' imprisonment (February 14, 2013) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 168 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Lee Henry Berry
slug: lee-henry-berry
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Michigan
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possess with intent to distribute less than five grams of cocaine base; possess with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base; possess with intent to distribute less than 500 grams of cocaine; felon in possession of one or more firearms

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Peter Christian Boulette
slug: peter-christian-boulette
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Northern District of Alabama; 2. Eastern District of Arkansas; March 3, 2008
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine; possession with intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine (two counts); possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime (two counts); felon in possession of a firearm; 2. Possession of a firearm by a convicted person; possession of an unregistered firearm

original_sentence:
1. 600 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; 2. 87 months’ imprisonment (concurrent); three years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Gregory R. Boyd
slug: gregory-r-boyd
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Montana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine; possession of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking offense; felon in possession of a firearm

original_sentence:
420 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Jason C. Brown
slug: jason-c-brown
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Central District of Illinois
offense: Possession of more than 50 grams of cocaine base "crack" with intent to distribute
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
324 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Jermaine Brown
slug: jermaine-brown
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute cocaine, cocaine base, and marijuana; possession with intent to distribute cocaine; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime (two counts); distribution of cocaine base

original_sentence:
548 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (July 8, 2011); amended to 511 months' imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 211 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Reuben Bullock
slug: reuben-bullock
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of New York
offense: Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
210 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Arthur Lee Butler, Jr.
slug: arthur-lee-butler-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
120 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Jonathan Rodrico Carter
slug: jonathan-rodrico-carter
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Alabama
offense: Possession with the intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Maurice Davon Cawthon
slug: maurice-davon-cawthon
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base; possession of a shotgun in relation to a drug trafficking offense; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; possession of an unregistered firearm with an overall length of less than 26 inches, including a barrel of less than 18 inches

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release; $600 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Emilio Chase
slug: emilio-chase
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of West Virginia
offense: Distribution of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
210 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release; $1,100 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Calvin Lavan Clark
slug: calvin-lavan-clark
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base (crack) and a quantity of cocaine; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
354 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Leonard A. Clement
slug: leonard-a-clement
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine and cocaine base and possessing with intent to distribute marijuana


recipient_name: Troy V. Cleveland
slug: troy-v-cleveland
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: other
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of "crack," use of persons under 18 years to distribute, and distribute "crack" to persons under 18 years of age; distribute 50 grams or more of "crack"

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 328 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Keith O. Cobb
slug: keith-o-cobb
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine; conspiracy to violate 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (a)(1)(B)(i) -- money laundering

original_sentence:
400 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, and unpaid balance of the $10,000 fine remitted at the time of his release, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Gregory Anthony Collins
slug: gregory-anthony-collins
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Illinois
offense_category: drug offense
original_sentence: Life imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment.)
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise; employing a person under 18 in drug trafficking; money laundering


recipient_name: Jeremy Conner
slug: jeremy-conner
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession of firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; felon in possession of a firearm

original_sentence:
Life plus 60 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (December 10, 2008); amended to 240 months' imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Adrian Lyndell Cook
slug: adrian-lyndell-cook
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Eastern District of Virginia; 2. Eastern District of Virginia; August 5, 2009
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; 2. Supervised release violation (possession with intent to distribute cocaine base)

original_sentence:
1. 240 months' imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (October 6, 2008); amended to 168 months’ imprisonment; 2. 60 months' imprisonment (concurrent) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Richard David Courville
slug: richard-david-courville
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture 50 grams or more of methamphetamine; manufacture of methamphetamine (two counts)

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $4,000 fine; $6,146 restitution (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Theartis Daniels
slug: theartis-daniels
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
Life plus 60 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Michael Leroy Darity
slug: michael-leroy-darity
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to unlawfully manufacture and distribute cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
384 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; amended to 308 months' imprisonment (January 18, 2016) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Larry Lamont Davie
slug: larry-lamont-davie
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Kentucky
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing cocaine base; aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing cocaine base; possession of a firearm in the furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Travis Davis
slug: travis-davis
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Central District of Illinois
offense: Possession of more than 50 grams of cocaine base (crack)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; amended to 280 months' imprisonment (March 13, 2009) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Milton DeJesus-Bones
slug: milton-dejesus-bones
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine; attempt to possess with intent to distribute cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to 360 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Terrance Terell Dendy
slug: terrance-terell-dendy
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine; felon in possession of a firearm; possession of a firearm in connection with a felony

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Marcus Louis Diaz
slug: marcus-louis-diaz
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense: Conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of a mixture of methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Anthony Timothy Dodd
slug: anthony-timothy-dodd
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense: Conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to 240 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Curtis Drayton
slug: curtis-drayton
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise; distribution of cocaine base (four counts); possession with intent to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Enoch Edison
slug: enoch-edison
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maryland
offense: Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, cocaine, and marijuana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: George Ralph Ellis
slug: george-ralph-ellis
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing marijuana; carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime; possession with intent to distribute fifty (50) grams or more of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Korell Ellis
slug: korell-ellis
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with the intent to distribute cocaine base; use or carry a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
295 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $14,330 fine; amended to 248 months' imprisonment (October 7, 2015) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017 and unpaid balance of the $14,330 fine remitted.)


recipient_name: Samuel Stevens Farmer
slug: samuel-stevens-farmer
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute more than five grams of cocaine base (four counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Travis Nathaniel France
slug: travis-nathaniel-france
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Virginia
offense: Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $450 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Tammie Twyone Francis
slug: tammie-twyone-francis
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Missouri
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Marcus Emile Franklin
slug: marcus-emile-franklin
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Cecil Ray Frye, Jr.
slug: cecil-ray-frye-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine; possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking felony (two counts)

original_sentence:
548 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $9,546 restitution; amended to 300 months' imprisonment (September 11, 2007) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 211 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Angel Garcia-Bercovich
slug: angel-garcia-bercovich
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 or more kilograms of marijuana; possession with intent to distribute 100 or more kilograms of marijuana

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Anthony DeWayne Gillis
slug: anthony-dewayne-gillis
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: fraud
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; false statements (three counts); possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking (six counts); possession of a sawed-off shotgun

original_sentence:
1,748 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; amended to 1,711 months' imprisonment (November 2, 2010); amended to 1,681 months' imprisonment (December 28, 2015) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Aaron Glasscock
slug: aaron-glasscock
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; amended to 292 months' imprisonment (November 1, 2015) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Alpidio Gonzalez
slug: alpidio-gonzalez
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Eastern District of Louisiana; 2. Eastern District of Louisiana; May 16, 2008
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Violation of the Federal Controlled Substance Act; 2. Supervised release violation (Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana)

original_sentence:
1. 360 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release; 2. 37 months’ imprisonment (concurrent) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Franklin Goodwin, Jr.
slug: franklin-goodwin-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Kansas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base or possess with intent to distribute or distribute cocaine; use of a communication facility to facilitate the offense of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; one year's supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Gary Lee Gordon
slug: gary-lee-gordon
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Montana
offense: Possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
290 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; amended to 220 months' imprisonment (October 1, 2009) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2017.)


recipient_name: Willie Goudeau
slug: willie-goudeau
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute or possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and 100 kilograms or more of marijuana

original_sentence:
292 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $25,000 fine; amended to 235 months' imprisonment (October 27, 2015) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017 and unpaid balance of the $25,000 fine remitted.)


recipient_name: Robert James Graves
slug: robert-james-graves
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Virginia
offense: Continuing criminal enterprise
offense_category: other
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Jeffrey Gray
slug: jeffrey-gray
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Delaware
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine; attempt to possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine; possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime; money laundering; felon in possession of a firearm

original_sentence:
480 months' imprisonment; lifetime supervised release; amended to 384 months' imprisonment (December 22, 2015) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: John Gronski
slug: john-gronski
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Wyoming
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $4,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Joseph Lee Gulledge, Jr.
slug: joseph-lee-gulledge-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Tennessee
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute fifty grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine base

original_sentence:
120 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Gregory J. Hall
slug: gregory-j-hall
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine and more than 50 grams of cocaine base; distribution of more than 5 grams of cocaine base

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Cullen Reed Harris
slug: cullen-reed-harris
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture more than 1,000 grams of methamphetamine; manufacture of more than 1,000 grams of methamphetamine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $50,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 420 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Demetrius Carvon Harris
slug: demetrius-carvon-harris
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Minnesota
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine; possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on June 17, 2017.)


recipient_name: Gerald Anthony Harris
slug: gerald-anthony-harris
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute "crack" cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $3,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017 and unpaid balance of the $3,000 fine remitted.)


recipient_name: Charles B. Harrison
slug: charles-b-harrison
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense: Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 144 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Malcolm Hartzog
slug: malcolm-hartzog
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Mississippi
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance; possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Chalmers Lavette Hendricks
slug: chalmers-lavette-hendricks
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to violate narcotic laws (cocaine); possession/distribution cocaine (crack); possession of a firearm by convicted felon during drug trafficking crime; possession of firearm/ammunition by convicted felon (two counts)

original_sentence:
Life plus 300 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; amended to life plus 60 months’ imprisonment (March 6, 1998) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Larry Darvell Henricks
slug: larry-darvell-henricks
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Montana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine (two counts); possession with intent to distribute marijuana; possession with intent to distribute (four counts); using a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking offense (two counts)

original_sentence:
420 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Larry Dwayne Hill
slug: larry-dwayne-hill
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Aiding and abetting to conspire to possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine; aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine; felon in possession of a firearm (two counts)

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: James David Hinkle
slug: james-david-hinkle
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Distribution of methamphetamine (two counts); use or possess a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime (two counts)

original_sentence:
375 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Michael Dwayne Holmes
slug: michael-dwayne-holmes
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (four counts); use of a communication facility to commit a controlled substance offense; distribution of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school; establishment of a place for the manufacture and distribution of a controlled substance (two counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; eight years' supervised release; $5,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Daryl Lain Hook
slug: daryl-lain-hook
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Oklahoma
offense: Manufacture methamphetamine; possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
292 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Jack Howton
slug: jack-howton
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Kentucky
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to knowingly and intentionally possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine; attempted to knowingly possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine; knowingly and intentionally possess with intent to distribute and distributed a mixture of methamphetamine; felon in possession of a firearm; attempted intimidation to influence testimony of witness (two counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; six years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Terry Conlenzo Huffman
slug: terry-conlenzo-huffman
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense: Possession with intent to distribute at least 50 grams of "crack" cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $3,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018 and unpaid balance of $3,000 fine remitted at the time of his release, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: George Edward Ingram, Jr.
slug: george-edward-ingram-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base "crack"

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 120 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Derrick Isom
slug: derrick-isom
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Rhode Island
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base

original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Corey Jacobs
slug: corey-jacobs
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine; aid and abet the possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (two counts); distribution of cocaine base (13 counts); interstate travel in aid of narcotics trafficking (two counts); possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; distribution of cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 264 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Steven P. James
slug: steven-p-james
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Knowingly and intentionally distribute a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine base (crack); Knowingly and intentionally combine, conspire, confederate, and agree to distribute a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine base (crack)

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Mario Burtram Janssen
slug: mario-burtram-janssen
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with attempt to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture; failure to appear

original_sentence:
222 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Harold Dean Jones
slug: harold-dean-jones
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Michigan
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute controlled substances; felon in possession of a firearm (two counts); distribution of heroin; possession with intent to distribute heroin

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Tyrelle Deyon Jones
slug: tyrelle-deyon-jones
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine base; distribution of cocaine base (four counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Robert Joyner
slug: robert-joyner
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense: Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Ray Thomas Kelly, II
slug: ray-thomas-kelly-ii
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Southern District of Indiana; 2. Western District of Pennsylvania; April 17, 2008
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine; 2. Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine

original_sentence:
1. 70 months' imprisonment; three years’ supervised release; 2. 240 months' imprisonment (concurrent); 10 years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 191 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Stanley Knox
slug: stanley-knox
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Mississippi
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Continuing criminal enterprise; distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; use of a communication facility to facilitate distribution of cocaine base (seven counts); attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine; possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base (two counts); distribution of cocaine base within 1,000 feet of a high school (two counts); use of a communication facility to facilitate the attempted distribution of cocaine base (two counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; eight years' supervised release; $2,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Dana William Lasich
slug: dana-william-lasich
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Dakota
offense: Conspiracy, possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $2,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Nathaniel Law
slug: nathaniel-law
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Columbia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Narcotics conspiracy; maintaining a residence for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, and using a controlled substance; distribution of five grams or more of cocaine base (five counts); distribution of cocaine base within 1,000 feet of a school; possession with intent to distribute five grams or more cocaine base; distribution of cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 12 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Gerardo Leyva
slug: gerardo-leyva
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of a controlled substance; money laundering


recipient_name: Kevin B. Lockhart
slug: kevin-b-lockhart
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Rhode Island
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine; possession with intent to distribute cocaine, aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Donald Steven Looney
slug: donald-steven-looney
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine; possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and aiding and abetting; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and aiding and abetting (two counts)

original_sentence:
548 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (May 19, 2006); amended to 511 months' imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 211 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Clinton Stanley Matthews
slug: clinton-stanley-matthews
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, cocaine base and heroin; distribute a mixture or substance containing cocaine base; possess with intent to distribute cocaine (five counts); possess with intent to distribute heroin

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Dennis Scott McCullough
slug: dennis-scott-mccullough
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense: Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Demond Trevino McFadden
slug: demond-trevino-mcfadden
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more of cocaine base;
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; amended to 120 months’ imprisonment (January 21, 2016) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Ralph McIver
slug: ralph-mciver
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Georgia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine; distribution of cocaine (three counts); attempt to possess with intent to distribute cocaine

original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Schearean Jean Means
slug: schearean-jean-means
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance; possession with intent to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, and marijuana; use of a communication facility to commit, cause or facilitate commission of drug felony (five counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $5,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Daniel L. Morgan
slug: daniel-l-morgan
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine; attempt to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine; conspiracy to use and carry firearms in relation to a drug trafficking crime; using and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime; felon in possession of a firearm

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Kareem Myers
slug: kareem-myers
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Pennsylvania
offense: Distribution of five or more grams of cocaine base (two counts)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release; $1,200 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, and unpaid balance of $1,200 remitted at the time of his release, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Jamael Aaron Nettles
slug: jamael-aaron-nettles
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine; possession with intent to distribute cocaine; simple possession of marijuana

original_sentence:
365 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release; amended to 293 months' imprisonment (June 4, 2008); amended to 235 months' imprisonment (January 30, 2012); amended to 188 months' imprisonment (July 9, 2015) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Kari Nicole Parks
slug: kari-nicole-parks
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Virginia
offense: Conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and oxycontin
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 120 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Charles Anthony Perry
slug: charles-anthony-perry
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Oklahoma
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; maintaining a place for the distribution of a controlled substance; distribution of cocaine base

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Lamont Pollard
slug: lamont-pollard
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute in excess of five grams of cocaine base, carrying a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime


recipient_name: Lawrence Maurice Powe
slug: lawrence-maurice-powe
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute schedule II (cocaine) controlled substance; Possess with intent to distribute schedule II (cocaine) controlled substance; use of firearm in a drug trafficking felony (two counts)

original_sentence:
480 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release: $100,000 fine; $900,000 forfeiture obligation (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018 and unpaid balance of $900,000 forfeiture obligation remitted, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Chad Christopher Pyne
slug: chad-christopher-pyne
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine and more than 500 grams of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon

original_sentence:
200 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; amended to 262 months' imprisonment (January 5, 2006) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Timothy Orlando Rainey
slug: timothy-orlando-rainey
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Alabama
offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana (two counts)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 235 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Terrance Range
slug: terrance-range
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base after having been previously convicted of a felony drug offense; possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base after having been previously convicted of a felony drug offense


recipient_name: Fabian Roberson
slug: fabian-roberson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Ohio
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of cocaine base; possession of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Sean Anthony Robinson
slug: sean-anthony-robinson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon (three counts)

original_sentence:
420 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; amended to 360 months’ imprisonment (November 23, 2015) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Delanjun L. Rogers
slug: delanjun-l-rogers
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Distribution and possession with intent to distribute more than five grams of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Anthony Dewon Rose
slug: anthony-dewon-rose
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Oklahoma
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base, aka “crack”; possession with intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of MDMA, aka "ecstasy"

original_sentence:
188 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, and unpaid balance of the $1,000 fine remitted at the time of his release, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Shawn Sadler
slug: shawn-sadler
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 151 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Lawrence Samuels, Jr.
slug: lawrence-samuels-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Oklahoma
offense: Possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
210 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $5,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, and unpaid balance of the $5,000 fine remitted at the time of his release, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: William Keith Schanck
slug: william-keith-schanck
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine; possession of ephedrine; possession of hydriotic acid; maintaining a place for the purpose of manufacturing methamphetamine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Todd Alan Scofield
slug: todd-alan-scofield
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Dakota
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess a controlled substance; possession of a firearm by a prohibited person; distribution of a controlled substance (two counts)

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Terence Devon Scott
slug: terence-devon-scott
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Distribution of 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime


recipient_name: Stacia Smith
slug: stacia-smith
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Illinois
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Narcotics conspiracy; use of a telephone in drug conspiracy (two counts); using/carrying a firearm in relation to a drug offense

original_sentence:
252 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Steven Blair Speal
slug: steven-blair-speal
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Kansas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance; possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine; possession with intent to distribute marijuana; possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime; possession of a firearm by a prohibited person (two counts)

original_sentence:
Life plus 60 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $5,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Terry Earl Stewart
slug: terry-earl-stewart
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine; aiding and abetting in the possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine (two counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 327 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Kenneth Stover, Jr.
slug: kenneth-stover-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Ohio
offense_category: drug offense
original_sentence: Life imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2017.)
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine; possess with intent to distribute cocaine; conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana; unlawful use of a communication facility (two counts); felon in possession of ammunition; use of a firearm in the commission of a drug trafficking crime


recipient_name: Michael Stradford
slug: michael-stradford
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of New Jersey
offense: Distribution and possession with intent to distribute more than 5 grams of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
188 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Jerry Strahan
slug: jerry-strahan
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Illinois
offense: Conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine base; distribution of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Kenneth Demon Terry
slug: kenneth-demon-terry
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Eastern District of Missouri; 2. Eastern District of Missouri; September 24, 2007
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; 2. Willful failure to surrender for service of sentence

original_sentence:
1. 188 months' imprisonment; four years’ supervised release; 2. 15 months' imprisonment (consecutive); two years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 19, 2018.)


recipient_name: Don Thomas, Jr.
slug: don-thomas-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maryland
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute narcotics (five kilograms or more of cocaine); possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted a term of 240 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Tracy Maurice Thomas
slug: tracy-maurice-thomas
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine base (crack); using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime (two counts); possession with intent to distribute more than five grams of cocaine base (crack)

original_sentence:
437 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (July 13, 2009); amended to 420 months’ imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Jerry Lee Thompson
slug: jerry-lee-thompson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute less than five grams of cocaine base within 1,000 feet of a playground and aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
312 months' imprisonment; 12 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Raphael Marice Tinsley
slug: raphael-marice-tinsley
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base


recipient_name: Tyrone Trader
slug: tyrone-trader
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Pennsylvania
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute cocaine; distribution of cocaine (four counts); distribution of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school (three counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment, and unpaid balance of $1,000 fine remitted at the time of his release, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Mark David Turner
slug: mark-david-turner
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine; possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine; possession of pseudoephedrine (precursor chemical) knowing and having reasonable cause to believe that the pseudoephedrine would be used to manufacture five grams or more of methamphetamine (two counts); using and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking offense (two counts); possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine; manufacture and possess with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine (two counts)

original_sentence:
481 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Vincent Lee Twiggs, II
slug: vincent-lee-twiggs-ii
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense: Possession of five grams or more of a substance containing cocaine base with intent to distribute
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
188 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 151 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Darnell L. Walker
slug: darnell-l-walker
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Ohio
offense_category: drug offense
original_sentence: Life imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment.)
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy, possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base; possession of firearm by convicted felon (two counts)


recipient_name: Lafayette Maurice Washington
slug: lafayette-maurice-washington
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine and more than 50 grams of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Jeffrey Scott Welch
slug: jeffrey-scott-welch
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Arizona
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Distribution of methamphetamine (two counts); possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine; using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime (two counts); unlawful possession of a firearm

original_sentence:
420 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $5,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018 and unpaid balance of the $5,000 fine remitted at the time of his release, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Albert Wilborn
slug: albert-wilborn
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Indiana
offense: Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
204 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Billy Dee Williams
slug: billy-dee-williams
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; using/carrying firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; and aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
Life plus 60 months’ imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 228 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Kevin Wise
slug: kevin-wise
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Columbia
offense: Unlawful distribution of five grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Jason Allen Woody
slug: jason-allen-woody
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of West Virginia
offense: Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
312 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $2,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 19, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Harold Dwight Wooten
slug: harold-dwight-wooten
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of North Carolina
offense: Conspiracy: Possession with intent to distribute and distribute cocaine base (crack)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
298 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on April 18, 2017.)


recipient_name: Delmar Anton Zeigler
slug: delmar-anton-zeigler
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-12-19
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Oklahoma
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession of cocaine base with intent to distribute and aiding and abetting; possession of cocaine base with intent to distribute


recipient_name: Lawrence Daro Adams
slug: lawrence-daro-adams
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Texas
offense: Possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, aiding and abetting
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $5,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Tyrone Allen
slug: tyrone-allen
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense: Aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Anthony Arthur
slug: anthony-arthur
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute at least 50 grams of "crack cocaine"
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
210 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Lisa Woods Ball
slug: lisa-woods-ball
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Virginia
offense: Conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Curtis A. Beasley
slug: curtis-a-beasley
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five grams or more but less than 50 grams of crack cocaine; possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of crack cocaine

original_sentence:
408 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Efrem Berry
slug: efrem-berry
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Georgia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute a detectable amount of cocaine; possession with intent to distribute less than 50 kilograms of marijuana; possession with intent to distribute a detectable amount of 3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine, aka MDMA

original_sentence:
235 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 151 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Albert Betemit
slug: albert-betemit
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute in excess of five kilograms of powder cocaine and 50 grams of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine (three counts); distribution of cocaine; possession with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of cocaine base (two counts); distribution in excess of 50 grams of cocaine base (two counts); unlawful use of a communication facility

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; four years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Carroll Edgar Blevins, Jr.
slug: carroll-edgar-blevins-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Western District of Virginia; 2. Western District of Virginia; November 3, 2006
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Distribution of methamphetamine (two counts); 2. Supervised release violation (possession of a firearm by a convicted felon (two counts))

original_sentence:
1. 188 months' imprisonment; six years’ supervised release; 2. 51 months' imprisonment (consecutive); one year's supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Kerwin Blount
slug: kerwin-blount
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Connecticut
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine and cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
292 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Tramiere Broughton
slug: tramiere-broughton
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base ("crack")
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Christopher Carlton Bryson
slug: christopher-carlton-bryson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute heroin and marijuana, each a schedule I controlled substance, and cocaine and cocaine base ("crack"), each a schedule II controlled substance; money laundering

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Earl Cain
slug: earl-cain
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Massachusetts
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Christopher Michael Calloway
slug: christopher-michael-calloway
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
181 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (June 18, 2007); amended to 180 months' imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Jermaine Lewis Carter
slug: jermaine-lewis-carter
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense: Conspiracy to distribute at least 50 grams of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Jimmy Carter, Jr.
slug: jimmy-carter-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride (two counts); possession of cocaine hydrochloride; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Mark Clifton
slug: mark-clifton
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (crack); possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (crack) and aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $7,500 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, and unpaid balance of $7,500 fine remitted, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Dewayne Damper
slug: dewayne-damper
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Mississippi
offense: Possession with intent to distribute "crack" cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release; $4,500 fine (April 20, 1999); amended to 360 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release; $4,500 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Johnny Davis
slug: johnny-davis
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of five kilograms or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more of cocaine base, commonly known as crack cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Luis Diaz
slug: luis-diaz
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (July 25, 1996); amended to 360 months' imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: William Henry Dudley
slug: william-henry-dudley
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Reginald Leon Edwards
slug: reginald-leon-edwards
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
181 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $400 fine (August 3, 2007); amended to 180 months' imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Timothy John Ehrmann
slug: timothy-john-ehrmann
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Minnesota
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and ecstasy; aiding and abetting to distribute ecstasy (two counts); aiding and abetting to distribute methamphetamine (three counts); possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (March 5, 2004); amended to 292 months' imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 228 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: P.W. Ferguson
slug: pw-ferguson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute and distribution of a quantity of cocaine base, aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Timothy Fields
slug: timothy-fields
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy; possession with intent to distribute controlled substance, aiding and abetting (three counts); use and carry firearm during drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
Life plus 60 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 465 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Tyris Ford
slug: tyris-ford
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Pennsylvania
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base ("crack"); distribution of cocaine base ("crack") or possession with intent to distribute cocaine base ("crack"); carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Osvaldo Richard Gonzalez
slug: osvaldo-richard-gonzalez
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine; possession of firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Jamere Ireadus Hall
slug: jamere-ireadus-hall
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maryland
offense: Possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base; felon in possession of firearm
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 210 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Donikki Hardy
slug: donikki-hardy
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense: Possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
480 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (November 26, 2002); amended to 300 months' imprisonment (October 28, 2008); amended to 299 months' imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Robert Jeffrey Harris
slug: robert-jeffrey-harris
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 210 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Jeff Hendricks
slug: jeff-hendricks
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine; conspiracy to possess a List I chemical to manufacture methamphetamine

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (May 9, 2002); amended to 324 months' imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Timothy Johnson
slug: timothy-johnson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Paul Kinney
slug: paul-kinney
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute in excess of 500 grams of methamphetamine

original_sentence:
235 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (April 19, 2006); amended to 210 months' imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Daniel Lee Larsen
slug: daniel-lee-larsen
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Utah
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute; conspiracy or attempt to manufacture methamphetamine (two counts); establishment of a manufacture operation; possession of a listed chemical (two counts); possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense

original_sentence:
384 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $2,000 restitution (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 270 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Darrius Lewis
slug: darrius-lewis
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Mississippi
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Robert Lum
slug: robert-lum
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Hawaii
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of methamphetamine

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Karliss Lyttle
slug: karliss-lyttle
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Illinois
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base; distribution of less than five grams of cocaine base (two counts)

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $500 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Ryan W. Magro
slug: ryan-w-magro
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Massachusetts
offense: Possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Orlando Keith McCord
slug: orlando-keith-mccord
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Michigan
offense: Possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Donna Sue McDaniel
slug: donna-sue-mcdaniel
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense: Distribution of 219.6 grams of methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: John E. McNeill
slug: john-e-mcneill
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Kansas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of phencyclidine, commonly known as PCP; conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of phencyclidine, commonly known as PCP


recipient_name: Frantz Michel
slug: frantz-michel
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute heroin, cocaine, and cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; five years' supervised release (January 31, 2003); amended to 300 months' imprisonment (November 1, 2011); amended to 235 months' imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Vernard Mitchell
slug: vernard-mitchell
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Columbia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition by a person convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year; unlawful possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base; unlawful possession with intent to distribute heroin; unlawful possession with intent to distribute cannabis

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 210 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Robert L. Moffitt
slug: robert-l-moffitt
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine base; distribution of cocaine base; maintaining a drug-involved premises (two counts)

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release (April 10, 2006); amended to 292 months' imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Ward Everette Mohler
slug: ward-everette-mohler
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of methamphetamine; distribution of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (three counts); carry firearm during drug trafficking (two counts); possession of firearm by a convicted felon (two counts); distribution of methamphetamine (nine counts)

original_sentence:
469 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release (April 23, 1992); amended to 436 months' imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 22, 2016.)


recipient_name: Michael Toriano Morris
slug: michael-toriano-morris
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute cocaine and cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (August 19, 2004); amended to 292 months’ imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Victor Robert Nava, Sr.
slug: victor-robert-nava-sr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Montana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana; distribution of marijuana; possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute; distribution of hydrocodone; possession of morphine with intent to distribute; possession of codeine with intent to distribute

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 270 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Cathy Lea Neal
slug: cathy-lea-neal
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture and 50 grams or more of actual (pure) methamphetamine

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 21, 2017.)


recipient_name: Jose Otero
slug: jose-otero
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Massachusetts
offense: Possession of cocaine with intent to distribute
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Tilman Rufus Partin
slug: tilman-rufus-partin
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Kentucky
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine; possession with intent to distribute cocaine, aiding and abetting
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 324 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Roosevelt Terence Jerome Rayford
slug: roosevelt-terence-jerome-rayford
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Texas
offense: Conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, possess, or dispense cocaine base (crack) or marijuana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
326 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $2,000 fine (July 1, 2003); amended to 300 months’ imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Eddie James Reed
slug: eddie-james-reed
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Georgia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Jose Rodriguez
slug: jose-rodriguez
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of New Jersey
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin and more than 50 grams of cocaine base

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $10,000 fine (April 27, 2006); amended to 235 months' imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017 and unpaid balance of the $10,000 fine remitted.)


recipient_name: Cynthia Valdez Shank
slug: cynthia-valdez-shank
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Michigan
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute more than five kilograms of powder cocaine, 50 grams of cocaine base, and/or 1,000 kilograms of marijuana; possession with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine; possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base (crack cocaine); possession with intent to distribute 40 pounds of marijuana

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $10,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017, and unpaid balance of the $10,000 fine remitted.)


recipient_name: Artis Sherman
slug: artis-sherman
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense: Conspiracy in the possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Carnell Smith
slug: carnell-smith
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Northern District of Illinois; 2. Eastern District of Arkansas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute mixtures containing cocaine; 2. Possession of a prohibited object by a prison inmate; February 11, 2001

original_sentence:
1. 262 months' imprisonment; five years’ supervised release; 2. Seven months' imprisonment (consecutive) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Tony Taylor
slug: tony-taylor
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base (crack); distribution and possession with intent to distribute more than five grams of cocaine base (crack) (five counts); distribution and possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base (crack)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 293 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Deborah Theeler
slug: deborah-theeler
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture and 50 grams or more of actual (pure) methamphetamine following two prior felony convictions


recipient_name: Damarlon Cenaka Thomas
slug: damarlon-cenaka-thomas
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Michigan
offense: Distribution of five grams or more of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
230 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Dexter Bert Tyson
slug: dexter-bert-tyson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maryland
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a mixture containing cocaine base and a mixture containing cocaine; possession with intent to distribute a mixture containing cocaine base and cocaine, aiding and abetting; possession with intent to distribute a mixture containing cocaine, aiding and abetting (two counts); possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, aiding and abetting; possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, aiding and abetting, felon in possession of a firearm; felon in possession of ammunition

original_sentence:
Life plus 60 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 300 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Lavan Maurice Walker
slug: lavan-maurice-walker
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute a detectable amount of heroin (two counts); possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon

original_sentence:
420 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Jamie Warfield
slug: jamie-warfield
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (two counts); possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; eight  years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 21, 2017)


recipient_name: Lamar Webster
slug: lamar-webster
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Montana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine; possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine; money laundering conspiracy; money laundering

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Sterling Kenneth Westberry
slug: sterling-kenneth-westberry
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Travis L. Wilken
slug: travis-l-wilken
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Utah
offense: Possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of actual methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
235 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 22, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Derrick Maurice Williams
slug: derrick-maurice-williams
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of North Carolina
offense: Possessed with intent to distribute cocaine base (crack)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 21, 2017.)


recipient_name: Jacobi Lamont Williams
slug: jacobi-lamont-williams
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of North Carolina
offense: Distributed cocaine base (crack)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Nelson Williams
slug: nelson-williams
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Louisiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (two counts); distribution of cocaine base; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 22, 2017.)


recipient_name: Darvell D. York
slug: darvell-d-york
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-22
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Illinois
offense: Delivery of a controlled substance
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Antonio Lee Alls
slug: antonio-lee-alls
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(A)(ii); attempt to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(A)(ii)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; amended to 240 months' imprisonment (March 18, 2016) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 150 months' imprisonment, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Monica Lorraine Amaker
slug: monica-lorraine-amaker
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Southern District of West Virginia; 2. Southern District of West Virginia; February 28, 2006
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Conspiracy to distribute a quantity of cocaine base and hydromorphone, 21 U.S.C. § 846; possession with intent to distribute a quantity of hydromorphone, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1);; 2. Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base, also known as “crack”, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); possession with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine, also known as “coke”, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); possession with intent to distribute a quantity of morphine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); possession with intent to distribute a quantity of marijuana for remuneration, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A); felon in possession, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) & 924(a)(2)

original_sentence:
1. 87 months’ imprisonment; six years’ supervised release; amended to 66 months’ imprisonment (July 20, 2009); amended to 46 months’ imprisonment (March 13, 2012); 2. 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: William Baldwin
slug: william-baldwin
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Connecticut
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), & (b)(1)(A)

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: John Barnes
slug: john-barnes
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Rhode Island
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(A); possession with intent to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(C)

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: James Edward Blackmon
slug: james-edward-blackmon
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine and 50 grams or more of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A) & 841(b)(1)(c)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 270 months' imprisonment, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Joshua Chuntay Booker
slug: joshua-chuntay-booker
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b)(1)(A)(iii) & 846

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Lasalle Boone
slug: lasalle-boone
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(A)(iii); possession of firearms by a person previously convicted of a felony crime, 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) & 924(a)(2)

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Justin L. Border
slug: justin-l-border
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute drugs, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(b)(1)(A) & (b)(1)(D); possession of drugs with intent to distribute, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A) & (b)(1)(D); felon in possession of firearm, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: John London Bradshaw
slug: john-london-bradshaw
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Michigan
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), & (b)(1)(B)(iii); possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), & (b)(1)(B)(iii)

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 262 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the eight-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Marvin Dontrail Brookins
slug: marvin-dontrail-brookins
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Kentucky
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 352.56 grams or more of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); possession with intent to distribute 80.442 grams or more of cocaine base,  21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); possess with intent to distribute 1,707 grams of marijuana,  21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)


recipient_name: Zoann Brown
slug: zoann-brown
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A), & 846

original_sentence:
292 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Fermon Keith Brown, Jr.
slug: fermon-keith-brown-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a), (b)(1)(A)(iii), & 846
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, and unpaid balance of the $1,000 fine remitted, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Brian Keith Buckery
slug: brian-keith-buckery
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possess with intent to distribute and distribute five grams or more of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 151 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the eight-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Derrick Bullard
slug: derrick-bullard
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Pennsylvania
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 846
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: James Edward Burns
slug: james-edward-burns
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Georgia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(B)(iii)

original_sentence:
235 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Albert Campbell
slug: albert-campbell
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Georgia
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 846
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
420 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Dwayne Edward Coe
slug: dwayne-edward-coe
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, cocaine base, methamphetamine, and crystal methamphetamine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(b)(1)(A), & 851

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Michael Cooper
slug: michael-cooper
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maryland
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, cocaine base, and heroin, 21 U.S.C. § 841

original_sentence:
188 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Howard Gregory Cromer
slug: howard-gregory-cromer
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Georgia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession of firearms by convicted felon, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g); possession with the intent to distribute at least five grams of methamphetamine after a conviction for a prior drug offense, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(B)(viii), & 851; possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the eight-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Eric Marquan Dogan
slug: eric-marquan-dogan
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A), & 851

original_sentence:
188 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Michael Jerome Felder
slug: michael-jerome-felder
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base and a quantity of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A), 846, & 851; possession with intent to distribute and distribution of five grams or more of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(B), & 851; possession with intent to distribute and distribution of a quantity of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C), & 851

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 151 months' imprisonment, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Ricardo Flores
slug: ricardo-flores
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a quantity in excess of five kilograms of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A)

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Darryl Dewayne Frazier
slug: darryl-dewayne-frazier
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute "crack" cocaine and aiding and abetting, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and 18 U.S.C. § 2

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $3,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017 and unpaid balance of the $3,000 fine remitted, leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Roger Sherman Gaston
slug: roger-sherman-gaston
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base and cocaine hydrochloride, 21 U.S.C. § 846

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Jimmy Dean Gibson, aka Jimmie Dean Gibson
slug: jimmy-dean-gibson-aka-jimmie-dean-gibson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture, possess with the intent to distribute, and to distribute a controlled substance (methamphetamine), 21 U.S.C. § 846; manufacture of 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(B); possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(B); distribution of a controlled substance (three counts), 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(C)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $3,634.75 restitution (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 292 months' imprisonment, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Martin Godbersen
slug: martin-godbersen
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture following a felony drug conviction, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(B)(viii), 846 & 851; possession with intent to distribute 50 grams of methamphetamine mixture following a felony drug conviction, 1 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(B)(viii), 846 & 851

original_sentence:
226 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on May 3, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the eight-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Jose Gonzalez
slug: jose-gonzalez
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Southern District of Indiana; 2. Southern District of Indiana; January 15, 2005
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine (mixture), 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (actual), 500 grams or more of cocaine, and 100 kilograms or more of marijuana, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846, & 851; 2. Supervised release violation (Conspiracy to distribute marijuana, 21 U.S.C. §841(a)(1)

original_sentence:
1. 240 month’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release; 2. 12 months’ imprisonment (consecutive); $10,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Brian Goodine
slug: brian-goodine
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five or more grams of cocaine base (two counts), 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(B)

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the eight-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Donald L. Graham
slug: donald-l-graham
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Kentucky
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 846; distribution of crack cocaine and aiding and abetting (two counts), 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and 18 U.S.C. § 2

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Delfon Lebrew Hare
slug: delfon-lebrew-hare
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maryland
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base (two counts), 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Kenneth L. Harlan
slug: kenneth-l-harlan
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Indiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution in excess of 500 grams of methamphetamine (mixture), 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846, & 851; distribution in excess of five grams of methamphetamine (actual) (four counts), 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & 851(a)(1); distribution of less than five grams of methamphetamine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & 851(a)(1)

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on August 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Daniel Holmes
slug: daniel-holmes
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base ("crack") and cocaine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(C), 846, & 851

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Samuel Rodney Holmes
slug: samuel-rodney-holmes
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 846; possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(B)

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release ; amended to 324 months' imprisonment (November 24, 2015) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 240 months' imprisonment, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Dion James, aka Delvin Percy James
slug: dion-james-aka-delvin-percy-james
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute cocaine powder and cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and 18 U.S.C. § 2; conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine powder and cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 846

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Kevin Lee Johnson
slug: kevin-lee-johnson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Louisiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & 846; distribution of five grams or more of crack cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) & 18 U.S.C. § 2

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Sean Johnson
slug: sean-johnson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Louisiana
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Violation of the Federal Controlled Substance Act (two counts), 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 & 853 and 18 U.S.C. § 2

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Stevie Wayne Johnson
slug: stevie-wayne-johnson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 846; possession with intent to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $15,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, and unpaid balance of the $15,000 fine remitted, leaving intact and in effect the three-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Desmond D'Juan Jones
slug: desmond-djuan-jones
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Alabama
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 & 841(a)(1); possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); distribution of five grams or more of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); committing an offense while on pretrial release, 18 U.S.C. § 3147(1)

original_sentence:
264 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: George Andrew Kelley
slug: george-andrew-kelley
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense: Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine, 21 U.S.C. § 846
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; three years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the three-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Mandy Martinson
slug: mandy-martinson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture and marijuana, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(D), &  846; possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine mixture, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(A); possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)

original_sentence:
180 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on December 4, 2016, leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Jimmie Lee Mason
slug: jimmie-lee-mason
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of North Carolina
offense: Distribution of more than 50 grams of cocaine base (crack), 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; amended to 180 months' imprisonment (November 10, 2008) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to on April 30, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Demetrius McLaughlin
slug: demetrius-mclaughlin
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (actual), 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(A)(viii); possessing or distributing pseudoephedrine, knowing it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(c)(2) and 18 U.S.C. § 2

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Ricky Mitchell
slug: ricky-mitchell
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Georgia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine hydrochloride and crack cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 846

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Manuel Muniz
slug: manuel-muniz
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and 500 grams or more of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(b)(1) & (b)(1)(A)

original_sentence:
235 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 151 months' imprisonment, leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Juan Carlos Munoz
slug: juan-carlos-munoz
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a protected location, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 860(a), & 851


recipient_name: Oscar Luke Muse
slug: oscar-luke-muse
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 846; possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); possession of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)

original_sentence:
312 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Jerome Nalls
slug: jerome-nalls
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Georgia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§846, 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A)(iii) & 851


recipient_name: Cory Shane Peacock
slug: cory-shane-peacock
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Arkansas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine, 21 U.S.C. § 846; possession of a firearm during a drug-trafficking offense,  21 U.S.C. § 924(c)

original_sentence:
420 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Demetrius Carl Phillips
slug: demetrius-carl-phillips
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b)(1)(A)(iii) & 846

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $500 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Bradford S. Potts
slug: bradford-s-potts
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A)(ii), (b)(1)(A)(iii), & 846

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Kirk Pryor, aka Richmond Oejoneil Felton
slug: kirk-pryor-aka-richmond-oejoneil-felton
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of North Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), (b)(1), & 851

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 292 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Madison Pugh, Jr.
slug: madison-pugh-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Ohio
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, aiding and abetting, 21 U.S.C. § 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 2

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Christopher G. Rhodes
slug: christopher-g-rhodes
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense: Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
294 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: James Henry Robinson
slug: james-henry-robinson
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute over 50 grams of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)

original_sentence:
300 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Corey D. Rosendary
slug: corey-d-rosendary
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Pennsylvania
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possess with intent to distribute and distribute five grams or more of cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(B)(iii)

original_sentence:
210 months' imprisonment; four years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the four-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Michael Lee Roth
slug: michael-lee-roth
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Northern District of Iowa
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine actual and possess and distribute pseudoephedrine following felony drug conviction, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A), (c)(1), (c)(2), 846 & 851; travel in interstate commerce and aid and abet travel in interstate commerce with the intent to promote and facilitate a business enterprise involving the manufacture and distribution of controlled substances, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1952(a)(3) & (a)(3)(A)

original_sentence:
248 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release ; amended to 240 months' imprisonment (March 12, 2015) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 180 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: David Ray Roy
slug: david-ray-roy
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 846; distribution of cocaine base (two counts), 21 U.S.C. § 841

original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; amended to 324 months' imprisonment (October 27, 2010); amended to 262 months' imprisonment (January 2, 2012); amended to 210 months' imprisonment (February 18, 2016) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 168 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Gerald William Sachsenmaier
slug: gerald-william-sachsenmaier
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Wisconsin
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 846; distribution of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; six years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the six-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Kenneth Sanders
slug: kenneth-sanders
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: fraud
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. § 846; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (four counts), 1 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); embezzlement (five counts), 18 U.S.C. § 641

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; two years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the two-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Jeffery William Strain
slug: jeffery-william-strain
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Missouri
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, actual, 50 grams, or more, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A), & 846; manufacture methamphetamine, actual, 50 grams or more, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(A)

original_sentence:
292 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Gregory Scott Taylor
slug: gregory-scott-taylor
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 & 841(a)(1)

original_sentence:
240 months' imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Juliano Torres
slug: juliano-torres
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of New York
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), & (b)(1)(A)(ii)(II)


recipient_name: Adam G. Townsend
slug: adam-g-townsend
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Central District of Illinois
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Distribution of at least five grams of cocaine base ("crack"), 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & (b)(1)(B); illegal possession of firearm by felon, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release; $1,220 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 188 months' imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the eight-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Leonel Cano Vela
slug: leonel-cano-vela
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Iowa
offense: Conspiracy to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 & 841(b)(1)(B)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
360 months' imprisonment; eight years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the eight-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Robert James Wallace
slug: robert-james-wallace
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of Maryland
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, aiding and abetting, 21 U.S.C. § 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 2

original_sentence:
262 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Mark Jeffrey Ward
slug: mark-jeffrey-ward
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Eastern District of Michigan; 2. Eastern District of Michigan; July 7, 2009
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base - crack, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & 846; possession of stolen firearms, 21 U.S.C. §§ 922(j) & 924(a)(2);; 2. Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base- "crack", 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846, & 851; bond violation, 18 U.S.C. § 3147

original_sentence:
1. 108 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release; amended to 71 months’ imprisonment (August 6, 2014); 2. 240 months and 1 day's imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Charles Edward Williams
slug: charles-edward-williams
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); possession of a precursor material with intent to manufacture methamphetamine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(d)(1); possession of a precursor material with knowledge that the material will be used to manufacture methamphetamine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(d)(2)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on March 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Kelly J. Winkenhofer, aka Jean Kelly Winkenhofer
slug: kelly-j-winkenhofer-aka-jean-kelly-winkenhofer
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), & (b)(1)A)(viii)

original_sentence:
210 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment, and leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: Lester Martin Works
slug: lester-martin-works
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-11-04
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: 1. Northern District of Florida; 2. Northern District of Florida; February 6, 2008
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Distribution of more than five grams of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base (five counts), 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) & (b)(1)(B)(iii); distribution of more than 50 grams of a mixture and substance containing cocaine base, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) & (b)(1)(A)(iii);; 2. Supervised release violation (conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base), 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & 846

original_sentence:
1. Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release; 2. 60 months' imprisonment (consecutive) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on November 4, 2017, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release with all its conditions and all other components of the sentence.)


recipient_name: David Alan Aldridge
slug: david-alan-aldridge
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to manufacture 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine and possession of pseudoephedrine with intent to manufacture methamphetamine; possession with intent to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine; possession of equipment, chemicals, products and materials to manufacture methamphetamine; possession of a detectable amount of methamphetamine; purchasing more than nine (9) grams of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine during a 30 day period (six counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release; $35,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 151 months’ imprisonment, and unpaid balance of the $35,000 fine remitted, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Marvin D. Anthony, Sr.
slug: marvin-d-anthony-sr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Missouri
offense: Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; distribution of cocaine base
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; six years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 262 months’ imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Kevin Bivins
slug: kevin-bivins
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of New York
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of five kilograms or more of cocaine; conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of 50 grams or more of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base; use of a communication facility to commit a drug trafficking offense (eight counts)

original_sentence:
168 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (January 11, 2002); amended to 240 months’ imprisonment (on remand) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on October 27, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Edward Lionel Blake
slug: edward-lionel-blake
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, aiding and abetting

original_sentence:
360 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release; $1,000 fine (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on February 24, 2017.)


recipient_name: Wallace Bourgeois, Jr.
slug: wallace-bourgeois-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
offense_category: fraud
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
1. Conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base ("crack"); 2. Wire fraud


recipient_name: District/Date:
slug: districtdate
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
offense_category: other
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
1. 240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release; 2. 12 months’ imprisonment (concurrent); three years’ supervised release (concurrent) (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on October 27, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Damon Brightman
slug: damon-brightman
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of five kilograms or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more of cocaine base

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 210 months’ imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Shane Derek Brown
slug: shane-derek-brown
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Florida
offense: Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
262 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on February 24, 2017.)


recipient_name: James Holman Browning, Jr.
slug: james-holman-browning-jr
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of North Carolina
offense: Conspiracy: Distributed cocaine base ("crack"); distributed crack (two counts)
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on October 27, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Mark Lamont Byrd
slug: mark-lamont-byrd
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Missouri
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute in excess of five grams of cocaine base; possession of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime; possession with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of cocaine base

original_sentence:
180 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on February 24, 2017.)


recipient_name: David Carroll
slug: david-carroll
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Eastern District of Virginia
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Distribution of crack cocaine (seven counts); distribution of cocaine (two counts); possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on February 24, 2017.)


recipient_name: Derrick Dante Clark
slug: derrick-dante-clark
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base; possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base

original_sentence:
240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on February 24, 2017.)


recipient_name: Kevin Wayne Daniels
slug: kevin-wayne-daniels
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine; felon in possession of a firearm

original_sentence:
240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to 175 months’ imprisonment, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Israel John Patrick Davis
slug: israel-john-patrick-davis
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of North Dakota
offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute a controlled substance
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
204 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (January 22, 2009); amended to 163 months’ imprisonment (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on October 27, 2017.)


recipient_name: Anthony D. Dorsey
slug: anthony-d-dorsey
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Missouri
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute a mixture or substance containing cocaine base in an amount of 50 grams or more

original_sentence:
240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on October 27, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Juan Antonio Duenas
slug: juan-antonio-duenas
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Texas
offense: Possess with intent to distribute, more than 50 grams of methamphetamine
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
original_sentence:
240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to October 27, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Charlton Oriaso Esekhigbe
slug: charlton-oriaso-esekhigbe
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; felon in possession of a firearm

original_sentence:
240 months’ imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on October 27, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: John Aundo Gamble
slug: john-aundo-gamble
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of South Carolina
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of cocaine base and a quantity of cocaine; felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition; using, carrying and possessing a firearm during and in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
240 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on October 27, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


recipient_name: Miguel Garcia
slug: miguel-garcia
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: District of North Dakota
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute controlled substances; possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to a term of 360 months’ imprisonment.)


recipient_name: Ignatizo Giuliano
slug: ignatizo-giuliano
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Middle District of Florida
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Knowingly conspiring with other persons to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on February 24, 2017.)


recipient_name: Stephen Runea Glenn
slug: stephen-runea-glenn
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Southern District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base, aiding and abetting; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime

original_sentence:
180 months’ imprisonment; five years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on February 24, 2017.)


recipient_name: Arandal Derrick Goodley
slug: arandal-derrick-goodley
clemency_type: commutation
grant_date: 2016-10-27
source_url: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/commutations-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017
district: Western District of Texas
offense_category: drug offense
created_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
updated_at: 2026-06-07 07:38:11
offense:
Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base "crack"; possession with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine base "crack"; laundering of monetary instruments (15 counts); aiding and abetting laundering of monetary instruments (four counts)

original_sentence:
Life imprisonment; 10 years’ supervised release (Terms: Prison sentence commuted to expire on October 27, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment.)


