Detroit man forfeits $11,320 in drug proceeds in federal and local criminal cases

Staff report

WARREN

Derrick Peete, 23, one of two Detroit men awaiting a murder trial in a November 2012 Warren gunbattle that killed a city man, has been sentenced in two other cases and forfeited $11,320 in drug proceeds.

Peete pleaded guilty Tuesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to heroin possession and forfeiture of $5,900.

Judge Andrew Logan sentenced him to 17 months in prison, to be served at the same time as the 46-month prison term he got last week in federal court for possessing and selling heroin and cocaine.

The federal case also included an order that he forfeit $5,420 in drug proceeds.

Peete is scheduled to go to trial March 24 before Judge Ronald Rice of common pleas court in the slaying of Marco Dukes. If convicted there, he could be sentenced to life in prison.

Peete’s federal charges stemmed from the Little D-Town investigation local, state and federal officials carried out in Warren during 2012 and early 2013 that resulted in about 100 indictments on weapons and drug charges.

Police confiscated the $5,420 in drug proceeds Nov. 11, 2012, during a traffic stop on Hazelwood Avenue Southwest.

Also in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday, Derrick L. Bennett, 20, of Third Steet Southwest, pleaded guilty to the aggravated robbery of the Subway restaurant on Parkman Road Northwest on Nov. 24, 2013, and received a four-year prison term.

Judge Logan also sentenced Antwan Baugh, 21, of Oak Street Southwest, to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary and felonious assault in a Dec. 29, 2013, robbery on Iowa Avenue Northwest. Police said Baugh and another male attempted to rob a man standing outside of a house.