Fort Myers, Florida – U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber
today sentenced Tafawah Horrobin (39, Cape Coral) to 10 years in federal prison
for conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl. Horrobin had pleaded guilty
on May 13, 2019. His uncle, co-defendant Michael Horrobin, was sentenced to 4
years and 9 months’ imprisonment on August 12, 2019. A third co-defendant,
Travis Lee Watkins, is scheduled to be sentenced on September 3, 2019.
According to court documents, on five occasions between
February and August 2018, law enforcement officers purchased heroin laced with
fentanyl from Tafawah Horrobin in Cape Coral. During the investigation,
officers learned that although Tafawah Horrobin resided in Cape Coral, he
frequently visited a house in Lehigh Acres where Travis Lee Watkins and Michael
Horrobin lived. Investigators determined that the Lehigh Acres residence served
as a “safe house” for a drug distribution ring where large quantities of
controlled substances were stashed for safekeeping.
On August 16, 2018, the Drug Enforcement Administration and
the Cape Coral Police Department simultaneously executed search warrants at Tafawah
Horrobin’s Cape Coral residence and the Lehigh Acres safe house. Inside the
Cape Coral residence, investigators found and arrested Tafawah Horrobin who
confessed to distributing more than $10,000 in heroin and fentanyl for the
organization monthly. From that house, law enforcement also seized various
items used to facilitate the distribution of drugs, an illegally possessed
firearm, and cash. Inside the Lehigh Acres safe house, law enforcement seized
approximately one kilogram of heroin, approximately 400 grams of cocaine,
smaller amounts of crack cocaine and methamphetamine, and four firearms.
This case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement
Administration and the Cape Coral Police Department, with assistance from the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United
States Attorney Michael V. Leeman.
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