A 56-year-old Hampton man pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring with others to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin.
According to court documents, Michael Dewayne Boddie was part of the William Joe drug trafficking organization that operated on the Virginia Peninsula and on the Southside.
Boddie is the father of former NFL player Michael Vick.
Boddie worked with Joe to arrange heroin deals and would conduct sales on Joe’s behalf. Many of these sales took place in Hampton near the homes occupied by Joe.
Boddie pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of more than 100 grams of heroin. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of 40 years in prison.
He will be sentenced Oct. 17.
Federal prosecutors said Joe — aka Pops, aka Unc, aka Rudy K — led a family-run heroin trafficking organization.
He pleaded guilty last week to continuing criminal enterprise. Joe faces a mandatory 20 years in prison when sentenced on Sept. 24.
The organization got heroin from sources in New York and New Jersey and would then sell it in the Hampton Roads area. As head of the organization, Joe employed multiple family members and acquaintances to distribute the heroin, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The organization operated from at least 2014 until Joe’s arrest in June 2017, and was responsible for distributing more than three kilos of heroin.
Federal prosecutors said Joe’s organization was the focus of a two-year investigation which included law enforcement surveillance and multiple court-authorized wire taps.
