Federal prosecutors want to seek stiffer sentences for defendants in a backpack cocaine case

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Federal prosecutors said they plan to seek stiffer sentences if they get convictions in a Mobile County drug case involving a child’s backpack.

This first came to light in March with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office raided a woman’s home on Harvey Courtnear Hank Aaron Park. Investigators said they found the woman’s three-year-old child with a backpack full of cocaine. Prosecutors allege that the woman, Tierra Tocorra Hillhad several kilos of cocaine with him.

The man prosecutors accuse of running a drug business Glennie McGeewas convicted of a federal crack cocaine charge in Mobile in 2006. Co-defendant Eric Aguilar was convicted of a methamphetamine charge in Texas in 10/20. That would increase the mandatory minimum sentence from 10 to 15 years if convicted in Mobile.

The trial is scheduled for March this year.