MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Three people have been convicted for their involvement in a multimillion-dollar drug trafficking organization, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
During the trial, Glennie Antonio McGee, 42, and his wife Echandza Dianca Maxie, 43, were involved in the DTO based in Mobile that distributed large amounts of cocaine and fentanyl pills between 2017 and 2024. Exavieria Deagnes Maxie, 37, was involved in trafficking a firearm and tampering with evidence.
The cocaine was sourced from “cartel-connected suppliers” in Texas and Mexico. The fentanyl pills, made to look like oxycodone, came from places in Alabama, Florida, and Washington.
The jury was able to review footage from wiretap recordings, CCTV videos from a camera in McGee’s car, pole camera and aerial surveillance videos, as well as texts, financial and tax records, and DNA evidence during the trial.
After a high-speed chase in Midtown Mobile, agents with the FBI arrested one of McGee’s cocaine suppliers in December of 2022. Agents then searched McGee’s and Echandza’s house in West Mobile and found a backpack with cocaine residue, cash, custom jewelry, a money-counting machine, drug ledgers, incriminating documents, and a Draco AK-47-style pistol.
Echandza claimed the gun was hers, but an analysis showed McGee’s DNA on the weapon. It was also found that one of the suppliers had bought the weapon for McGee, as he was a convicted felon and unable to have a gun. During the search, Echandza drove to several banks in the area and withdrew $138,000.
Homeland Security Investigations received recordings of McGee explaining how he laundered money through real estate properties in January and February of 2024. McGee was recorded selling 1,018 fentanyl pills on Feb. 17, 2024.
HSI agents intercepted 8,000 calls of McGee making drug deals during a court-authorized wiretap operation in March of 2024. Echandza was also heard making deals on a call for McGee.
McGee sold a kilogram of cocaine for $18,000 at a home on Euclid Avenue. A camera recorded a 15-year-old delivering the cocaine to McGee.
One of McGee’s couriers was arrested with a kilogram of cocaine, a quarter-kilogram of boric acid, and a loaded firearm on March 30, 2024. After learning of Hill’s arrest, McGee went to a home on Harvey Court and told several children to throw bulk cocaine over the fence of the home as a “game.”
Agents raided the home and found loaded firearms and bulk cocaine. Following this, agents intercepted calls of McGee instructing the children, an 8-year-old and a 3-year-old, to lie to personnel with the Alabama Department of Human Resources.
Through calls between McGee and his Texas-based suppliers, agents heard of a shipment of five kilograms of cocaine coming to Mobile in June 2024.
While conducting a traffic stop, agents found $24,000 in cash on June 13, 2024. Later that day, McGee and one of his lieutenants, Antonio Dwone Reed, were arrested after attempting to flee from law enforcement. McGee was found with three kilograms of cocaine in his lap and later confessed that he had been dealing cocaine since 2017.
While using McGee’s bugged car, Echandza and Exavieria were heard attempting to conceal evidence. Exavieria, a felon, stashed the custom jewelry and a .380 caliber pistol at her apartment in West Mobile.
Later, the pair told Exavieria’s 15-year-old nephew to toss the gun from a balcony before the apartment was searched by agents. When the nephew was unaware of how to remove the clip from the weapon, Exavieria told her 15-year-old son to do it, which was recorded.
The loaded gun was found near a softball field. Exavieria, who has been previously convicted of a federal methamphetamine-trafficking offense, told law enforcement she got the gun from Echandza’s and McGee’s home.
McGee is convicted of participating in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracies to traffic
cocaine and fentanyl, distribution of fentanyl, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, use of
minors in drug operations, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug-trafficking crimes, and
possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. His sentencing is set for March 2026.
He faces a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life in prison, as well as a fine of up to $20 million.
Echandza is convicted of participating in a cocaine-trafficking conspiracy, a firearms-trafficking conspiracy, distribution of a firearm to a convicted felon, and tampering with evidence. Her sentencing is set for March 2026 as well. She faces a minimum of 10 years in prison up to life, and a fine of $10 million.
Exavieria is convicted of participating in a firearms-trafficking conspiracy and tampering with
evidence. She faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. She is set to be sentenced in March 2026.
Several items, including real property, high-end vehicles, custom jewelry worth more than $400,000, and money judgments totaling $500,000, were forfeited by the jury.
Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement
Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Mobile County
Sheriff’s Office, the Mobile Police Department, the Prichard Police Department, and the Alabama
Law Enforcement Agency contributed to the investigation.