Walls facing federal drugs, weapons charges

A Lawrence County woman is currently being held in the Greene County Jail on behalf of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Jamie L. Walls, 38, was booked into the jail on Monday, Aug. 29.
Walls faces six federal felony charges. According to the indictment filed against her, she is accused to conspiring with three other people, Jason D. Apperson, James S. Rash and Dawn M. Killebrew, to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture that included methamphetamine. She is also accused of “knowingly and intentionally” distributing methamphetamine on July 31, 2020; Aug. 10, 2020 and Aug. 19, 2020, as well as possessing a Taurus G2 9mm pistol in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes” and for illegally possessing the firearm when it was “in and affecting interstate commerce.”
According to a motion to detain Walls prior to her trial, the government alleges that she sold methamphetamine to “a confidential source working at the direction of law enforcement” on the July 31 and Aug. 10 of 2020. On Aug. 19, 2020, the motion stated, Walls “possessed approximately 31.91 grams of methamphetamine in several different baggies and a firearm.” The motion further stated that Walls “admitted to having purchased multiple ounces of methamphetamine per week for at least the past six months,” and also admitted to trading methamphetamine for the pistol.
Walls is scheduled to go to trial on Monday, Oct. 31. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $10 million fine on the conspiracy charge, life imprisonment and a $250,000 fine for the firearm possession charge and up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine on each of the remaining charges.