According to data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the most sentenced federal crime in Alabama is drug trafficking.
Alabama has 6.37 federal sentences per 100,000. Drug trafficking crimes involve knowingly manufacturing, dispensing, or distributing controlled substances or counterfeit controlled substances meant to be passed off as the real thing. This does not count all the drug trafficking cases handled by the state courts.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall explained, “Due to our state’s proximity to Atlanta, a major distribution point for drugs, and to Texas, a border state, Alabama has become a prime transit point for drug trafficking. “We see marijuana, cocaine, meth, and now illicit fentanyl coming into our state as a result. The drug trade brings dangerous and violent illegal aliens into Alabama.”
Firearms offenses, ranked second, are sentenced at a rate of 5.81 federal sentences per 100,000. Firearms offenses are…
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