A man from Benton Harbor has been convicted of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and ecstasy as part of a federal dug case. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Grand Rapids says 44-year-old Richard Farmer, Sr. is one of 24 defendants in the multi-jurisdictional takedown of a meth ring. Farmer was accused of serving as an adviser to the leader of the organization, Raymond Stovall. The U.S. Attorney says Farmer told Stovall how to transport money and drugs, sought to invest money in drug packages, and plotted to help Stovall obtain additional methamphetamine from a source in Benton Harbor, Farmer’s hometown. The case was developed thanks to wiretapping over two months in 2018. The U.S. Attorney says Farmer also harbored Antwan Mims, a murder fugitive from Benton Harbor who had been hiding out in Atlanta, where Farmer was based. Farmer faces up to thirty years in prison when sentenced on October 9.
