MACON — A Commerce resident convicted for his role in a larger inmate-directed armed drug conspiracy operating in the Athens area has been sentenced to serve 19 years in prison for his crimes.
Brendan R. Gates, 37, of Commerce was sentenced by U.S. District Judge C. Ashley Royal to serve 228 months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release. This federal prison term will be served consecutively to any term of imprisonment imposed in a pending Gwinnett County Superior Court case. Gates was found guilty by a federal jury on Sept. 21, 2022, of one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
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