A Jamaican man who dealt drugs in Southeast D.C. was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Damion Alexander Peddie, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, has already been convicted of several drug trafficking felonies and deported at least five times. On April 1, a federal judge sentenced Peddie to 122 months in prison for illegally reentering the United States with a cache of firearms and drugs.
Court documents detailed that in the summer of 2024, FBI agents launched a long-term investigation into a drug trafficking organization focused on the 2900 block of Knox Place SE. During the inquiry, authorities discovered an alleged fentanyl and PCP trafficking organization with a stash house on Knox Place.
Authorities discovered that Peddie was working with members of the drug enterprise to sell fentanyl and other narcotics.
In August 2025, FBI officers raided a Taylor Street property connected to Peddie. During the search, agents discovered multiple weapons, seven pounds of marijuana, fentanyl, crack cocaine, and ammunition.
“Damion Peddie demonstrated a blatant disrespect for our laws and borders—he was deported five times, yet he chose to return and arm himself with a cache of weapons and drugs. “As a previously convicted drug trafficker, he continued to endanger American communities,” stated US Attorney Pirro. “This career criminal illegal alien is exactly the type of offender the Trump administration is working tirelessly to remove from our country — after serving his sentence, he will be deported.”
This is Peddie’s seventh federal conviction for unlawful reentry into the United States. He was previously convicted of the same offense in Maryland in 1996, as well as in Washington, D.C. in 2004, 2010, and 2013.
A judge also ordered the 64-year-old man to serve three years on supervised release and to follow any deportation orders.
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