A Columbia man who had his federal drug sentence commuted by then-President Joe Biden is jailed without bond Friday night in Boone County after apparently violating his federal parole.
42-year-old Malcolm Desean Redmon was released from federal prison in mid-July. A source tells 939 the Eagle that Redmon was arrested today during a traffic stop in Columbia. Redmon is jailed without bond in Boone County on what is a U.S. Marshals hold.
Redmon served time in state prison before being sentenced in September 2016 to 24 years and four months in federal prison for federal drug charges. Redmon pleaded guilty to leading a conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of powder and crack cocaine in the Columbia area from 2011 to 2014. Federal prosecutors in 2016 noted that court documents cited Redmon’s alleged involvement in numerous shooting incidents in the Columbia area. Boone County Prosecutor Roger Johnson told our news partner ABC-17’s Nia Hinson in January that prosecutors struggled to prosecute those involved in the shootings because witnesses feared retaliation.
Redmon’s father, Bruce Stephens of Columbia, was convicted in 2016 in federal court of threatening the attorney who represented one of Redmon’s co-defendants. Federal prosecutors say Stephens told the attorney at the federal courthouse “snitches, you a … snitch. I will kill you, kill your wife, kill your family.”