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TYLER, Texas \u2014 An East Texas man who led an operation selling illegal drugs, mainly crack cocaine, at buildings near local schools and daycares was sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n

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Samatraus Forge, pleaded guilty to three counts of engaging in organized crime. On Thursday, he was sentenced to life in prison during a hearing in the 475th District Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Forge was arrested back in 2025 after a credible informant told a detective that Forge is the head of a criminal organization with nine people acting as his salespersons for illegal drugs, an arrest affidavit said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The document explains that there were multiple times when the informant gave money to Forge or his workers and receiving different amounts of crack cocaine at Tyler-area homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Officers found meth, crack cocaine, many firearms, scales, baggies, packaging material and a lot of U.S. currency at these homes. The dates of the sales between the informant and the salespersons range from October 2024 to May 2025, the documents detailed.<\/p>\n

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The named co-conspirators included: Kendrez Johnson, Brittany Tuck, Johnathan Blackshire, Charles Miller, Tommy Spikes, Derrish Graydon, Ronald Calloway, Jannie Brown, Quashunn Mitchell and Jeffery Padilla.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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So far, Padilla is the only other co-defendant to be convicted in this case. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison after accepting a guilty plea in January. Records show that Blackshire has not been indicted at this time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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In May 2025, Spikes was found dead at an address that was provided many times by Forge as a \u201ctrap\u201d house, or somewhere where narcotics were sold. \u00a0Spikes also referred to himself as a 5-2 Hoover Crip, a criminal gang, the document explained.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Information received led detectives to find that many of the people involved in this operation are a part of the 5-2 Hoover Crip gang. Each location where the drugs were sold were within 1,000 feet of elementary schools and daycare facilities, the arrest affidavit said.<\/p>\n

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