Columbia man sentenced in federal court after threatening attorney
The father of a man convicted of leading a drug-trafficking conspiracy in Columbia was sentenced in federal court on Friday for threatening the attorney who represented one of his son’s co-defendants.
Bruce Wayne Stephens, 71, of Columbia, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison without parole.
Stephens repeatedly stated, “snitches, snitches belong in ditches,” and told the attorney that he would kill his family.
Stephens is the father of Malcolm Desean Redmon, who was sentenced on Sept. 29, 2016, to 24 years and four months in federal prison without parole. Redmon pleaded guilty to leading a conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of powder cocaine and crack cocaine in Boone County from Nov. 2011 to Aug. 2014.
