Javery Howard is the fifth Mississippi Delta law enforcement officer from the Greenville area to plead guilty to drug trafficking.
OXFORD — Former Hollandale police officer Javery Howard pleaded guilty Thursday to charges involving the transportation and distribution of illegal drugs through portions of the Mississippi Delta and into Memphis. He also admitted to traveling to Miami on two occasions to plot drug runs with FBI agents posing as Mexican drug cartel members.
He is among those charged in a federal drug trafficking indictment involving nine former Mississippi Delta law enforcement officers, including a former police chief and two former sheriffs. In five separate indictments, an additional six former Delta law enforcement officers are charged with drug trafficking related charges.
Howard, 33, also pleaded guilty to conspiracy. He was indicted in October for accepting $31,000 in multiple bribe payments, the second highest of any other defendant across six indictments of former Delta law enforcement officers and associates.
He previously served as an officer with the Metcalfe Police Department. Co-conspirator Brandon Addison, who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking last week, served alongside Howard at police departments in Hollandale and Metcalfe. Both departments are located in small, rural communities outside Greenville in Washington County. Howard is a resident of Greenville.
As part of Howard’s plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Mississippi dropped five counts of attempting to aid and abet the transportation of illegal drugs, five counts of trafficking illegal drugs with a firearm, and one count of conspiring to traffick illegal drugs in possession of a firearm.
Howard declined to comment to Mississippi Today.
Senior U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills accepted Howard’s guilty plea and set sentencing for Aug. 13. Mills released Howard on the conditions of the $10,000 unsecured bond after his arrest.
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