Join me to hear about Keith Jones (no relation!) of Washington DC’s gang No Rats Allowed and how he sold counterfeit fentanyl pills over social media. And did I mention gunplay? This is eCrimeBytes Season 3, Episode 13 – No Rats Allowed!!!
Sources:
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/district-felon-member-no-rats-allowed-pleads-guilty-fentanyl-trafficking-and-possession
- https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68007185/united-states-v-jones/
- https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67955008/united-states-v-jones/
- https://www.instagram.com/300_chief
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/violent-member-no-rats-allowed-crew-sentenced-60-months
Transcript:
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Keith
What’s up, you crazy bastards! Welcome to another episode of eCrimeBytes. This is where I research the court documentation and roast the criminals so you don’t have to. This week we have a gang in Washington, DC and their name is No Rats Allowed. And believe it or not, a member of this gang and the focus of this episode…
00:00:25:49 – 00:00:45:00
Keith
His name is Keith Jones. Yeah, I know when I saw that, I was like, I got to cover this case. How many criminals share my name, right? So please follow me as I literally walk you through what I learned in my research.
00:00:45:00 – 00:01:08:13
Keith
Okay, so our first stop in this story is January 15th, 2018. And this is when Keith Jones and an associate of his robbed a CVS pharmacy in Prince George’s County, Maryland. So in the court documents, they gave just generally that this CVS was in Seat Pleasant, Maryland. So I had to find it for you. So here it is.
00:01:08:13 – 00:01:30:04
Keith
Here’s the map. And it’s you can see right in the middle there the CVS is right on a, a very busy road in a very busy part of Maryland. Okay. So this is not just out in the sticks or anything. If you were to rob this, you could probably disappear pretty quickly and pretty easily. All right. So I wanted to give you the front view of this CVS.
00:01:30:05 – 00:01:34:29
Keith
It doesn’t look like the most welcoming CVS that I’ve ever seen.
00:01:34:29 – 00:01:51:34
Keith
This picture, it just it almost looks like they’re closed for business. Like, for good. Now, one of the things that my eyes drew to was over on the left hand side under the ratings, and I was like, what is this? A 2.0 out of five stars.
00:01:51:34 – 00:02:04:15
Keith
And it was 60 people that rated them. And I said this this CVS must be pretty bad. I don’t know if this is normal for pharmacies or what it is, but this this seems very low for me. So of course, I took a tangent and I started
00:02:04:15 – 00:02:09:40
Keith
reading the reviews, and I pulled a couple of the top ones for you, a couple of the top short ones for you.
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Keith
There are some that write books about how terrible this CVS is, and I welcome you to go check it out. So you can see this first one. It says,
00:02:18:02 – 00:02:28:48
Keith
the pharmacy here is the worst. I’ve been calling all day to check on a prescription for my son, to no avail. I waited for someone to pick up at the pharmacy for 30 minutes without getting through.
00:02:28:53 – 00:02:49:41
Keith
I decided to download the CVS app and after… And this person goes on. And you can see they’re obviously unhappy. This is the first one I ran into and I said, all right, maybe this person is an anomaly. Let me look at the next one. So the next one from Al Simmons says horrible customer service. Now there’s so much that is spelled incorrectly in here.
00:02:49:41 – 00:03:14:33
Keith
So I apologize if my reading isn’t up to par here. I’m trying to parse their words. But Al goes on to say horrible customer service, bad attitudes, and extremely slow. Picking up a prescription can take an hour, even if you’re the next person in line. They appear to have an indifference to doing their job without eye rolls and lip smacks. Heh heh heh heh.
00:03:14:38 – 00:03:37:35
Keith
You go Al. All right, here’s a couple more that I pulled out to show that this is not an anomaly. Wendy Phillips says pharmacy staff and service sucks. Staff appears unorganized and uninterested in assisting customers. Their system appears out of date. Doesn’t appear to have a good tracking system. And then I was like, is there anybody that likes this place?
00:03:37:35 – 00:04:03:40
Keith
And one of the next reviews had a five out of five stars. And I said, what the hell is this? This is Dawn Dusk Dust Dance. That is the name of the organization that rated them and, you know, all stars. And it says as a line increased, a cashier was immediately added. The cashier was exceedingly friendly. And I looked at this and I was like, this is a plant.
00:04:03:45 – 00:04:06:09
Keith
This is a goddamn plant.
00:04:06:09 – 00:04:17:45
Keith
After we read all those other ones and these people were very unhappy with the customer service. You know, this is a friend of a cashier or they paid them or something, because this is pretty much the only one that said this place was really…
00:04:17:45 – 00:04:23:42
Keith
They had their shit together. All the rest of them said that this place was absolutely horrible.
00:04:23:47 – 00:04:39:23
Keith
All right. So with that, that was a tangent. So Keith robbed this pharmacy of multiple bottles of promethazine. And if you’re from the street, the language there is lean. So this is,
00:04:39:23 – 00:04:49:46
Keith
kind of like a syrup that you mix in with other drinks and drink it. And it’s kind of like a party drug when you’re not being prescribed it for medical purposes.
00:04:49:51 – 00:05:13:19
Keith
He also rob them of $584. Okay. So now he also attempted to steal Percocet. And if you’re not familiar with what Percocet is, it’s an opiate pain relieving drug. It’s a narcotic. You have to have a prescription for it, not only a prescription for it, but a lot of times. See, I had a really serious surgery a couple years ago, and I was, given opiates.
00:05:13:24 – 00:05:22:42
Keith
And when you’re given opiates like that, they nowadays, they control them a lot stronger than they used to. So you have to get,
00:05:22:42 – 00:05:33:54
Keith
something like a prescription more often. I think it’s like every week and you’re only allowed a certain amount of pills, and you have to actually physically see a doctor instead of just being prescribed it over a phone.
00:05:33:59 – 00:05:51:41
Keith
So imagine this Percocet, this stuff is hard to get even when you have a prescription, and he wants to go there and steal it because people want opiates, right? I mean, it’s the same thing as heroin, basically. So the pharmacist, when he was there was unable to open the safe where the Percocet is because, you know, it’s in a safe.
00:05:51:41 – 00:06:18:56
Keith
It’s that that much wanted. So they protect it that well. So then he wasn’t able to get in the safe and probably was like, oh, oh shit. Oh okay. Runs. And somehow the police officers were on his tail. Okay. And there was a chase. There was a chase from Maryland into DC and he was Keith Jones was able to bail out of the vehicle and make his escape.
00:06:19:00 – 00:06:41:27
Keith
Okay. So for over a year he was just free. The law couldn’t find him. Okay. Somewhere along the line, they looked at the surveillance footage and they got an identity from it, and they identified that it was Keith Jones from Washington, DC. Now, I want to want to pause here if you’re jumping in the middle. This is Keith Jones from Washington, DC.
00:06:41:27 – 00:07:19:55
Keith
Not to be confused with Doctor Keith Jones from Maryland. Okay. We’re two different people. All right. So he was eventually caught because of the surveillance video and they take him to court. And he pled guilty to a charge of robbery, which is a crime of violence on January 3rd, 2020. And this is the circuit court of Prince George’s County, because this is where this happened in Maryland. He received a ten year suspended sentence where he served only six days in jail, followed by three years supervised probation.
00:07:20:00 – 00:07:30:16
Keith
And at this point, you should probably be stopping me and go, hey, you told me this episode’s about No Rats Allowed. You haven’t talked about a gang or anything yet. You are correct listener. You are correct. I haven’t.
00:07:30:16 – 00:07:39:47
Keith
I’ve done this on purpose. Okay, I’m telling you about this up front because since he’s convicted, a lot of stuff…
00:07:39:52 – 00:07:56:25
Keith
Sets, set in motion in his life. Okay, so for instance, he would have been done with supervised release in January of 2023 if he would have just kept his nose clean. Okay. You’re going to find out the bottom falls out here and he doesn’t keep his nose clean. But this is one of the reasons why I’m telling you this.
00:07:56:25 – 00:08:13:58
Keith
Another reason is when you’re a convicted felon, you can’t be around guns, have guns or anything like that. Guns will be coming up later in this episode, and it’s easier for me to just say, hey, you remember that case I told you about earlier? That’s why he couldn’t have guns. All right. And plus, this is very much like his his, ah crimes
00:08:13:58 – 00:08:25:00
Keith
later on. All right. So follow along with me. Let me take you to the next thing that he does.
00:08:25:00 – 00:09:03:38
Keith
All right. Washington, D.C. is our next stop here. This gang, No Rats Allowed is classified as a violent gang by the government. According to the documentation that I read. Now, Keith Jones, the individual that we’re talking about here, he has an Instagram account and the account name was just the number 300 underscore chief. So he would take this account and he would create Instagram stories showing pills with notes like, I don’t pop pills, so come get them now.
00:09:03:43 – 00:09:22:51
Keith
And what that’s supposed to mean is, you know, I don’t take these pills. Come and buy them from me. That’s basically what he’s saying in these Instagram stories to all the people that follow him. Now, I’ve been showing you his Instagram profile here and this is still out there.
00:09:22:51 – 00:09:26:38
Keith
And you notice that this is actually a private account.
00:09:26:38 – 00:09:49:45
Keith
So we can’t really see what it is that he posted and, you know, assuming he’s in law enforcement hands later on in this story, he’s probably not going to accept your friend request I imagine. Okay, so there’s these pills. All right. And I, I talked about pills earlier, but let me give you a little more information about them.
00:09:49:49 – 00:10:12:06
Keith
The pills have a marking. It’s M30. All right. Like just the letter M and the number three zero. I looked it up. This stands for a 30 milligram oxycodone pill. This has opiates in it. So opiates. That’s the classification of drug. Same thing as heroin or fentanyl or,
00:10:12:06 – 00:10:24:49
Keith
you know, there’s a bunch of different types. This is the classification of that drug that we’re dealing with. Now, fentanyl is way up there in the scale of of power.
00:10:24:49 – 00:10:47:10
Keith
Okay. So if your heroin is a one, your fentanyl might be a 100 on a scale. Okay. It’s a very, very powerful and even deadly opiate. And what happens is criminals will take fentanyl and pretty much put it into anything because you don’t have to use much of it to get a person high. And it’s a lot cheaper.
00:10:47:10 – 00:10:48:52
Keith
And as I understand it, it’s,
00:10:48:52 – 00:10:50:45
Keith
synthetically made. So it sounds like it’s
00:10:50:45 – 00:10:52:40
Keith
easier to make than something like heroin.
00:10:52:40 – 00:11:07:56
Keith
Okay, so here I got some M30 pills for you. And this picture came from the DEA, and they say the pills on the top are legit M30 oxycodone pills. They said the pills on the bottom are actually counterfeit pills.
00:11:07:56 – 00:11:23:00
Keith
So, yeah, maybe you can tell them apart when they’re right next to each other like this. But imagine if you were to cover up the top one and just look at the bottom one, and you need the pills. You may think these things are legit M30 pills.
00:11:23:00 – 00:11:30:19
Keith
You should know that the M30 and fentanyl just should never go together legitimately.
00:11:30:24 – 00:11:57:49
Keith
You would never see a pharmaceutical company putting those two things together. As I understand it. Now, we know that Keith Jones agreed to distribute at least 957 counterfeit M30 pills containing fentanyl weighing 105g. That’s a lot of… that’s not personal use. That’s definitely
00:11:57:49 – 00:12:11:45
Keith
distribution numbers. Right? We also know that Keith Jones agreed to distribute at least 99 counterfeit M30 pills containing fentanyl weighing ten grams at a different point.
00:12:11:47 – 00:12:47:45
Keith
So at this point, if you add all this up, we’re talking over 1000 counterfeit pills and about well over 115g of pills. Okay, that’s a lot of pills. So here’s an anecdote that I found on the court paperwork. There’s a defendant, another defendant of this conspiracy. He texted Keith Jones to buy over $10,000 worth of pills. During that same time period, individuals are seen texting the defendant, asking to
00:12:47:45 – 00:12:50:39
Keith
purchase, quote unquote, Percocet.
00:12:50:44 – 00:13:03:52
Keith
So they think it’s Percocet, but it’s actually just counterfeit pills that Jones is selling them with fentanyl in it, which is incredibly dangerous no matter how you try to look at that. So later,
00:13:03:52 – 00:13:21:04
Keith
law enforcement did note that this defendant had been arrested and linked to over 1000 blue M30 pills between the years of 2021 and 2022, all of which have tested and confirmed to be fentanyl.
00:13:21:09 – 00:13:48:00
Keith
Okay. And you might think, hey, that’s just an anomaly, Keith. Nope. Nope. It’s not. Here’s another anecdote. This is another another defendant. We’ll call this one defendant number two. He goes to Keith Jones as a source of large amount of drugs, and then he distributes them in smaller quantities to members of his community. So this defendant is seen in numerous text messages,
00:13:48:00 – 00:13:53:31
Keith
purchasing these M30 fentanyl pills and weed from Keith Jones.
00:13:53:31 – 00:14:17:42
Keith
Now weed, hey, ahhh that’s that’s cool with me but the fentanyl pills, that’s dangerous as hell. That’s that’s the part that’s really the crime here, in my opinion. So like the text messages that they looked at for defendant one, they looked at the same to, you know, text string for defendant two and they said, hey, people are texting defendant two to purchase drugs like Percocet.
00:14:17:42 – 00:14:31:38
Keith
That comes from Jones. All right. So that’s at least two dealers that you see getting their stuff from Keith Jones here. And this. Heh heh heh heh heh heh.
00:14:31:42 – 00:14:36:29
Keith
Okay. This one that I had to pause for a moment on this. So.
00:14:36:29 – 00:14:55:41
Keith
To show that Keith Jones was an all powerful drug dealer, this defendant, defendant number two, actually thanks Keith Jones for turning him into a drug dealer. And I had to pause there for a moment. And I thought, how does that situation come up? I mean, do you send them flowers?
00:14:55:46 – 00:15:16:59
Keith
Do you send them chocolate covered berries? What the hell do you do when you think someone for turning you into a drug dealer? I don’t even know. Hey, listen, if you know what the etiquette is, please put your thoughts in the comments on what the etiquette is for thanking your drug dealer friend for turning you into a successful drug dealer.
00:15:17:04 – 00:15:20:45
Keith
All right, so defendant two was then arrested earlier,
00:15:20:45 – 00:15:34:54
Keith
this year. And I guess this year would be 2023 with M30 fentanyl pills and a firearm as well. And you’re going to see guns. Guns are going to come into play here pretty heavily.
00:15:34:54 – 00:15:40:46
Keith
So in the middle of this in October 11th 2022, there was a law enforcement raid.
00:15:40:46 – 00:15:58:37
Keith
You know, I just said in the middle of this and I may have not told you the range of time we were talking about. So this crime spree, this DC gang crime spree that I’m talking about, this happens between August 1st of 2021 and October 28th of 2023.
00:15:58:37 – 00:16:24:32
Keith
So over a two year span now. What we’re going to do is we’re going to talk about one particular day in that time span. This is November 11th of 2022. There was a law enforcement raid in the middle of that time span. Now Jones was involved in this raid. Let me tell you a little bit about this. Jones was arrested but never prosecuted for this.
00:16:24:32 – 00:16:24:57
Keith
Okay.
00:16:24:57 – 00:16:39:38
Keith
You’re going to hear about this, and you’re going to say, wow, this is a pretty big deal. Yeah, it is, but he’s got some bigger shit coming up that’s going to kind of trump all this stuff. So I’m going to tell you about this just to let you know that later on, this is not just a single incident that he is charged with.
00:16:39:38 – 00:17:17:08
Keith
Okay. So he was arrested but never prosecuted for this incident. When the Metropolitan Police Department in DC entered a residence at 725 13th Street Southeast, okay, members of the Violent Crime Suppression Division and Narcotics Enforcement Unit responded to this address in relation to information from DC Housing Authority reporting that gang members had taken over an apartment and had been using that apartment to distribute narcotics from that location.
00:17:17:08 – 00:17:39:09
Keith
Now, this is the part that was kind of weird. You know how I am. I try to find these addresses for you so you can visualize them along with me, and we can walk through this story. So I plugged 725 13th Street, Southeast Washington, DC and Google Maps. And this is what comes back. It’s a map and there’s no 725 anywhere in here.
00:17:39:14 – 00:17:59:24
Keith
And if you think there is, just pause it, try to find it, circle it, and please let me know. Because I looked all over it. I could not find a 725 to show you in here. So I don’t know if the law enforcement just wrote the wrong address in the court documentation that I saw, or if this is just the block number or something like that.
00:17:59:29 – 00:18:04:07
Keith
But I think this is the general area where this incident takes place.
00:18:04:07 – 00:18:28:10
Keith
Now, what happens is law enforcement approached an apartment in this complex, knocked on the door, an unknown individual, male individual open the door only to immediately shut it when noticing that was law enforcement, right? Probably scared the shit out of him. And then members of law enforcement, they’re outside the perimeter of this apartment, right?
00:18:28:10 – 00:18:55:23
Keith
They notice that an unknown individual jumps out the window and escapes out the back. So eventually law enforcement is able to make entry into the apartment, and they located Keith Jones and what the police paperwork calls bedroom number two with four other individuals. Okay, when they found him, they found him with a whole bunch of shit. I am not kidding you.
00:18:55:28 – 00:19:28:03
Keith
So they found a pill bottle containing 78 blue pills marked M30. They found a pill bottle with 20 yellow round pills stamped with a 23, which I’m not really sure what those are to. They found a plastic bag containing 222g of green leafy substance, which tested in the field positive for weed, and a plastic bag containing 24 rounds of 45 caliber ammunition.
00:19:28:08 – 00:19:38:51
Keith
And immediately you would say, uh oh, if there’s ammunition, there’s probably guns, right? No shit. There’s guns. They find lots and lots of guns in this house.
00:19:38:51 – 00:19:42:41
Keith
I’m just going to go down the list here and tell you what is listed in the court documentation.
00:19:42:50 – 00:20:12:29
Keith
So they say they found a plastic bag also containing nine rounds of 40 caliber ammunition in the living room, five high capacity magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds and two rounds of nine millimeter ammunition in the kitchen. Because I need ammunition in my kitchen. You never know when shit’s going to just flare up in there. A plastic bag containing 50g of white rock like substance.
00:20:12:29 – 00:20:38:08
Keith
Which field tested positive for cocaine. And this is in bedroom number three, which not the exact same bedroom Keith Jones is in, but it’s the same house, right? I mean, that’s a lot. 50g of coke is a lot of coke. That’s definitely not personal use. And some guns. They found a Glock 21, 45 caliber. They found a Glock 30, 45 caliber.
00:20:38:13 – 00:20:48:20
Keith
They found a Glock 19 nine millimeter. They found a Glock 19 nine millimeter. And these are just throughout the house. It looks like those four were
00:20:48:20 – 00:20:50:41
Keith
just outside bedroom number three.
00:20:50:41 – 00:21:00:49
Keith
So you have to imagine, I’ve just told you about a whole bunch of ammunition, a whole bunch of guns, a lot of drugs. You’re probably gearing up and saying, Keith, there’s going to be a shooting, isn’t there?
00:21:00:51 – 00:21:09:00
Keith
There’s going to be a shooting. Follow me. Follow me now. And I will tell you all about this shooting that comes next.
00:21:09:00 – 00:21:43:46
Keith
All right, so our next stop on this crazy train is Saturday, October 28th, 2023 at approximately 10:22 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Special police officers were parked outside the Capital Park Plaza Apartments, located at 201 I Street Southwest in Washington, D.C. The Capitol Park Apartments are a large, multi-story apartment building with clear glass lobby on the first floor. So of course, you know me.
00:21:43:46 – 00:22:06:56
Keith
I had to go find this for you. Right? So here’s the map. And you can see this is a gigantic complex. All the other houses and complexes around it, they just they look so small. The apartment complexes across the street are much, much smaller than this. So that’s that’s the view from the map. Let me give you what this looks like
00:22:07:01 – 00:22:24:50
Keith
from the human street view. And this is it. So I couldn’t get this whole apartment complex on the screen for you at once because it’s just the way Google Maps worked. So what I try to do is stand in the middle of it and kind of scroll over to the side so you can see the left hand side of it.
00:22:25:04 – 00:22:34:04
Keith
So you can see there’s a lot of apartments in here. And this is important because later on something happens that, in my opinion, would put a lot of these people in danger.
00:22:34:04 – 00:22:58:42
Keith
So I’m going to show you some pictures here. And these pictures, they came from exterior and interior surveillance from the Capital Park Plaza Apartments. So the first picture here, this is from 10:22 p.m. and you can see on the left hand side of the picture there’s looks like two possibly I’d say two individuals, maybe three coming out of an elevator.
00:22:58:47 – 00:23:25:23
Keith
Now, there’s a red circle around one of them that is Keith Jones. And you know it because he’s wearing a black sweatshirt that has white spots, I guess very large white spots. And this is very easy to see in this surveillance camera series I’m going to show you here in a minute. Now, the right hand side, you can see police officers obviously looking right at them coming out of the elevator.
00:23:25:27 – 00:23:39:55
Keith
And I imagine well, let me back up. Apparently the officers know or believe that Keith Jones and his accomplices should not be in this apartment complex. Okay, so imagine
00:23:39:55 – 00:23:48:07
Keith
kind of like they locked eyes and oh my God, they’re here. And all of a sudden it’s like the chase is on, right?
00:23:48:12 – 00:24:05:21
Keith
And that’s exactly what happens in the next few pictures. So you see Keith Jones and his accomplice, they go by one door and I don’t know if that door is locked or what it is. They could have gone out there, I think. But they didn’t. Possibly. Possibly because
00:24:05:21 – 00:24:13:55
Keith
we know that there are officers that are actually outside of this complex as well as that the ones that we saw weren’t the only officers in this scenario.
00:24:13:55 – 00:24:23:46
Keith
Okay. So they go by this door and they try to go down the hallway, which I’m going to show you next here. And by this point, it looks like they’re running just by the picture.
00:24:23:46 – 00:24:33:50
Keith
And when they take off down this hallway, they get to the end of it. And it sounds like there’s a door there, and they’re unable to get through this door because it’s locked.
00:24:33:55 – 00:24:43:57
Keith
Okay. So their only choice then is to come back to the lobby. And so when they come back to the lobby,
00:24:43:57 – 00:24:57:04
Keith
his accomplice, he goes straight forward while Keith Jones runs to the left. And it’s going to actually be on the right hand side of this picture because he’s running to the left. Yeah, that’s the whole stage left stage right thing.
00:24:57:04 – 00:25:24:41
Keith
So he’s running to his left, which is our right in this picture. And you can see he’s kind of bending down in this picture, which is kind of curious, why would he be doing that. He’s doing this because what you see at his feet that those two white looking lights, I guess that’s where his feet are. He dropped a weapon, a gun, a pistol, and it went off.
00:25:24:52 – 00:25:46:40
Keith
That’s the muzzle flash that you see in the circle there. That’s the gun going off. And you can see there are at least two, maybe three officers in this. One at the top of the screen, right next to Keith, and that one over on the left hand side and possibly one outdoors. So we know that there’s police officers inside this complex, and we know there’s police officers outside of this complex.
00:25:46:44 – 00:26:02:04
Keith
They’re closing in on Keith. Keith gets freaked out and drops his gun. Why does he drop his gun? Because he tries to hide it. Why? Remember that case earlier when I told you
00:26:02:04 – 00:26:05:02
Keith
he was already a convicted felon. He shouldn’t have guns at all.
00:26:05:10 – 00:26:12:39
Keith
So this one picture is very, very bad for him because it shows him dropping his gun when he was trying to hide it, and it going off.
00:26:12:39 – 00:26:30:34
Keith
And so your next question should be where did that bullet go? Where did that bullet go? It went through the lobby window. And here’s a picture of the lobby window. Here you can see the bullet went through it down in the lower left hand corner of that window. And if you’re really curious, I got a zoom in for you.
00:26:30:36 – 00:26:36:15
Keith
Look at this. So this is where the bullet hit in the bottom part of the window that I just showed you.
00:26:36:15 – 00:26:37:19
Keith
All right, so.
00:26:37:19 – 00:27:03:39
Keith
When this gun goes off, you can imagine his partner probably doesn’t know that this is Keith dropping his gun and could think, oh, this is a police officer shooting at me because it sounds like he just drops to the ground and raises his hands to surrender when that gunshot goes off. Okay, so Keith’s partner is now giving up to the police at that moment when the gun goes off.
00:27:03:44 – 00:27:28:19
Keith
When the gun goes off, Keith Jones, he keeps running. Okay, so the next picture here, I’m showing you him bolting out the front door. And this is just after the gun shot went off. And then police officers, they chase him. They chase him out there and down the street a little ways. And it sounds like he tries to squeeze through a metal gate around 234 I Street southwest.
00:27:28:19 – 00:27:43:31
Keith
The officers actually deployed the pepper spray in order to detain him, which, wow, you know, if a gun went off and they’re still using pepper spray, that’s some restraint on the police officers. I gotta say. So all this incident, I guess, is also captured on,
00:27:43:31 – 00:27:46:28
Keith
body worn camera that I don’t have that the officers wore.
00:27:46:28 – 00:28:05:23
Keith
So that’s why we were able to know what happened. So. So then about four minutes later, we have our next picture, which is the police officers walking Mr. Jones back to the apartment complex where his gun just went off. Okay. So they recovered this firearm, obviously, because
00:28:05:23 – 00:28:11:44
Keith
he dropped it. So it ends up being a Smith and Wesson M&P 40 caliber pistol.
00:28:11:44 – 00:28:23:48
Keith
But what you need to know is this firearm is equipped with 13 rounds, and it was loaded with nine rounds and one in the chamber. And I have a picture of this gun for you.
00:28:23:53 – 00:28:30:32
Keith
All right. So that’s the Glock. That’s the magazine in the middle. And those are some of the rounds that they took on the right hand side.
00:28:30:32 – 00:28:43:26
Keith
And if you look at this, I don’t know why they kind of signify that one bullet in the middle there is different than all the rest. Maybe that’s the fired one or the one in the chamber. Ah that’s probably the fired one. I bet you that’s the one without the round in it
00:28:43:26 – 00:28:44:13
Keith
any longer.
00:28:44:13 – 00:29:04:07
Keith
So we also have a picture of where this firearm was found. And I have it on your screen. Now, this is the apartment complex. There’s like a pylon on in the middle and in lower left there you see a red circle. That’s where the gun landed. Eventually, when it came to rest. You imagine he dropped it, it fired.
00:29:04:07 – 00:29:24:35
Keith
So it probably kind of shot across the floor because of that force coming out of that gun. And it landed over there by the window. And that’s where the police eventually ended up finding it. Now, Jones said he was ditching the gun because he was scared. And, you know, I told you about that whole conviction he had prior.
00:29:24:40 – 00:29:30:23
Keith
So he probably knew because of that conviction he shouldn’t have been around guns, and he was probably just trying to throw it.
00:29:30:23 – 00:29:41:00
Keith
So with that, please follow along with me. I got to tell you about what happens next in court.
00:29:41:00 – 00:30:02:20
Keith
Okay, so our next stop here is in court. Court is actually pretty short for this case. I know in most of these cases they go back and forth and have motions and all that kind of stuff. This case was pretty much filed, and when it was filed, there were charges made against Mr. Jones and specifically there were two charges.
00:30:02:24 – 00:30:34:04
Keith
The first one was conspiracy to distribute and possess, with intent to distribute 40g or more of a mixture containing fentanyl. That’s probably a pretty hefty charge. I looked up the min and the max on that. The minimum is five years and the maximum is 40 years. So that’s a pretty big swing there. The second count, they charge him with unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition by a person convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year.
00:30:34:09 – 00:31:04:41
Keith
And the max I looked up here was 15 years. It didn’t have a minimum. So I don’t know if probation is possible or what, but that’s what the information said. So facing that, about a year after he was charged, let’s say he was charged in November of 2023. So by March 19th of 2024, Keith Jones just went in and said, ah fuck it, I’m guilty.
00:31:04:43 – 00:31:07:24
Keith
I’m guilty for both counts. And, you know,
00:31:07:24 – 00:31:34:00
Keith
maybe he could have fought the fentanyl. I don’t know how much evidence they had on them, but there’s no way he was fighting that gun charge, right? I mean, there’s surveillance video of the gun falling out of his hand, firing, and they have it. And he’s definitely not supposed to be around guns, because I took all that goddamn time upfront to tell you he was convicted of other stuff, so he knew he couldn’t be around guns, right?
00:31:34:05 – 00:31:52:00
Keith
But he was okay. So I don’t know what else he could have pled to besides guilty in this case, at least of the gun charge. So with that, follow me. And let me tell you a little bit about my final thoughts on this case, and I’ll get you out of here on a happy note.
00:31:52:00 – 00:32:17:53
Keith
All right, you crazy bastards. We’ve gotten to the end of this case. Okay. And before I do anything else, I have one very, very important thing to ask of you. I try not to ask anything of you, but I just this one thing. Ah okay. We’ll say to two things. Two things are very, very important to me. Now, as you look around, you probably noticed I’ve changed my video format, right?
00:32:17:58 – 00:32:48:49
Keith
I put a lot of work into these videos. If you would like to show your appreciation for the amount of research I put into this video and the amount of time it takes to put a cartoon dude like this together, please, please, just like the video and subscribe. Now listen, if you want to go above and beyond and really show some appreciation, if you know somebody that would like this video, if you could just share it with them, bring a new listener, hey I’d love to have them join us on these episodes.
00:32:48:54 – 00:33:05:13
Keith
And with that, let me tell you a few of my final thoughts, and then I’ll talk a little bit more about the podcast. So my first thought was, man, drugs… opiates and benzos. We’ve covered both of them in our episodes here and in the past. All of them are horrible.
00:33:05:13 – 00:33:33:15
Keith
Now, my second thought was, thank God the bullet didn’t hit anybody, right? It just hit a window and nobody was hurt or jeez, man, they could have been killed, right? That would have been horrible. So I was very, very thankful for that. But I was also very thankful that I know now not to stop at the CVS in Seat Pleasant, Maryland.
00:33:33:20 – 00:33:51:12
Keith
And so do you. You also know not to stop there because I spent all that time looking at the reviews up front. Their customer service apparently is horrible, horrible, so bad so that even when robbers come in, they can’t even get the drugs that they’re trying to rob them for. Apparently because Keith Jones couldn’t get the Percocet right.
00:33:51:17 – 00:34:05:26
Keith
That’s how bad their damn their customer service is. They can’t even help the robbers. Okay, so now you notice I didn’t tell you the sentence in this case, that’s because it’s still undecided.
00:34:05:26 – 00:34:08:14
Keith
So I cut this case at the point where he said, yep, I did it.
00:34:08:14 – 00:34:26:16
Keith
And the court hasn’t decided what his sentence is. I don’t think it’s going to be on the light side. I definitely don’t think it’s going to be 20 years, which is the heavy side, but I don’t think it’s going to be on the light side. So the light side was about five years. I think he’s going to be probably looking closer to 7 or 10 if I just had to guess.
00:34:26:18 – 00:34:55:47
Keith
Okay, that is my guess. Now, other people in this case have been charged for other crimes. Okay, the No Rats Allowed crew has people that have been charged and convicted. If you are interested in other cases that are related to this, I do have another one linked inside this video’s description. If you go to the sources and transcript link and click in there, you’ll see all the sources and you’ll see one of the links in there is just the other case.
00:34:55:47 – 00:35:08:59
Keith
Okay. So this podcast a year ago, actually a little over a year ago, about a year and a month ago, almost a year, two months ago. Wow. Time flies. I committed to doing one a week just for a year.
00:35:09:04 – 00:35:29:27
Keith
All right. When I did that, we were audio. Okay. Audio was a heck of a lot easier to edit than what you’re looking at on YouTube right now. I’ve evolved from doing that to being a talking head on video, to now a cool cartoon that I can actually do a lot of stuff with that I couldn’t do sitting in a chair in front of you.
00:35:29:31 – 00:35:54:51
Keith
So with that, I’m just saying that I’m not going to be releasing on Mondays every week going forward. I’m just going to be releasing episodes when I get them done. Sometimes it might be a week, sometimes it might be a few days, sometimes it might be a couple weeks. It kind of depends on how big the episode is and how long it takes me to do all this that you’re looking at, because all this stuff actually takes a lot of time for me to do, but I actually have a lot of fun with it.
00:35:54:51 – 00:36:10:04
Keith
I have a lot of fun with it. As long as you guys are entertained by it and want to learn about these cases, I don’t mind doing this at all. It’s a lot of fun. So if you enjoyed what you are watching now, please just leave me a note. Leave me a positive note in the comments. Tell me what you liked.
00:36:10:09 – 00:36:29:28
Keith
If there’s something that I can easily change to make it better, let me know. I might not know about. It might be an easy change and I may be more than happy to change it. You never know unless you ask. So with that, until then, I hope you come back and visit me on the next episode, because I guarantee I’m going to pick one just as crazy as this one.
00:36:29:33 – 00:36:41:59
Keith
And we’re going to have fun with the cartoons like you’re watching now. So see you then. Thanks. Bye.
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