Jamaican National Sentenced to Over 9½ Years in Prison for Illegally Reentering the U.S.

PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that DeWhite Dawkins, aka Dwight Dawkins, "Twin White," and Kaleem Fraites, 42, a Jamaican national who has been unlawfully residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced this afternoon to 115 months in prison by United States District Judge Timothy J. Savage for illegally reentering the U.S. after the defendant's 2023 deportation.

At a separate sentencing hearing this morning, Dawkins was sentenced to 92 months in prison by United States District Judge Kai N. Scott for bribing a postal carrier to deliver packages of marijuana.

The sentences will run concurrently, and after completing them, Dawkins will be removed from the U.S. once again.

As detailed in court filings and statements, for more than a year, Dawkins, a marijuana dealer, paid a United States Postal Service carrier substantial bribes to deliver Priority Mail packages that contained marijuana to him and an associate. He admitted that, in exchange for the bribes, the carrier delivered some 15 parcels containing approximately 237 pounds of marijuana in total, which were shipped from California to addresses on the postal carrier's route in Levittown, Pennsylvania. The marijuana in the 15 parcels was valued at approximately $450,000.

The illegal reentry case was investigated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Josh Davison.

The bribery case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, with assistance from Homeland Security Investigations and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Terri A. Marinari.