Ghostface Gangsters member from Forsyth sentenced to 30 years for prison-based meth trafficking

Georgia’s Albany (41NBC/WMGT) According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia, a Forsyth man and prominent member of the Ghostface Gangsters was sentenced on Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison for operating a methamphetamine trafficking ring from behind bars.

According to the office, the Ghostface Gangsters are a criminal group that was established inside the jail system.

In November 2024, Donald Jason Miles, 39, who goes by Crash and Cocho, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

The federal system does not have parole.

Earlier this year, two co-conspirators received sentences. Warren Frederick Courts, 38, of Marietta, also known as Dirty, received a sentence of 240 months in prison, while Keeli Nycole Wallace, 34, of Covington, received a sentence of 40 months. In 2024, they both entered guilty pleas to the same offense.

According to U.S. Attorney William R. Will Keyes, prison gangs and drug cartels directly endanger the security of our citizens and will not be allowed to continue. To find and apprehend the most dangerous criminal criminals, our agency is collaborating with law enforcement at all levels.

In a broader investigation into drug trafficking from Georgia prisons, undercover Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents allegedly carried out a drug bust at a Motel 6 in Albany on September 12, 2022, according to court filings. Investigators discovered that Courts, who was incarcerated at the time, had recruited Wallace to transport meth from a Mexican source close to Atlanta to southwest Georgia as part of a criminal deal.

While apprehending Wallace in the parking lot, agents found many phones and approximately 1,400 grams of methamphetamine. Wallace acknowledged that she had trafficked meth ten to fifteen times under Miles’ supervision. Later, investigators discovered that Courts and Miles were both members of the Ghostface Gangsters and had directed redistributors to the supply in Mexico. Within two months, at least fifty kilograms of methamphetamine were distributed as a result of the scheme.

According to GBI Director Chris Hosey, the Ghostface Gangsters have committed a deliberate effort to saturate Georgian communities with harmful substances. We must take firm action in response to these gang members’ blatant refusal to stop committing crimes even after being imprisoned.

At the time of the plan, Courts was being held at Rutledge State Prison and Miles was being held at Valdosta State Prison.

Officers from the Georgia Department of Corrections retrieved illegal phones from the cells of both men on September 16, 2022. Communications between the co-defendants and their source were discovered through search warrants.

Miles was incarcerated at the time of the offense due to convictions for armed robbery, aggravated assault, and other drug trafficking offenses in Fulton, Gwinnett, and Chatham counties. In Cobb County, Courts was most recently found guilty of possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it.