Deton Dodson of Norfolk was sentenced Thursday to two years and nine months in prison for distribution of cocaine.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A Norfolk man is the latest of more than a dozen people to be sentenced for involvement in a local drug trafficking organization.
Deton Dodson, 46, was sentenced Thursday to two years and nine months in prison for distribution of cocain, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Court documents indicate Dodson was a street-level drug dealer for a group that has been under investigation by local and federal authorities since 2020. The group was supplied with large amounts of cocaine, fentanyl and heroin from multiple places, including some groups in California.
Prosecutors say Dodson was caught by law enforcement after meeting up with a man named Edward Fonville in November 2021 for a hand-to-hand drug transaction. Dodson later admitted to officers that he traded cocaine to Fonville for a gun.
Fonville remains a fugitive, after prosecutors say Dodson tipped him off that he was being investigated.
Thirteen other co-defendants have been convicted and sentenced in this case since 2022.
The case is part of an operation carried out by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, an organization that attempts to dismantle high-level criminal organizations that threaten national security.