The last person charged in a federal cocaine distribution conspiracy is scheduled to be sentenced on December 6, court records show.

Of the three charged in the conspiracy, only Jacobi Harvey, the man scheduled to appear before District Judge James C. Dever III in December, was allowed pretrial release.

In September Harvey entered a plea to count 1 charged against him, which says he, Shermarquette Whitaker and Mark Vincent Dean conspired with one another to distribute and possess cocaine.

Dean was sentenced to 78 months in March and last week Whitaker was sentenced to 210 months.

Dever sentenced Whitaker on counts 1 and 4 of the indictment against him and he will serve the sentence concurrently.

Whitaker was also ordered to pay a special assessment of $200. It was recommended that Whitaker get substance abuse assessment or treatment, seek out vocational or educational opportunities and to keep separate from his co-defendants.

Upon completion of his sentence, Whitaker will have to serve five years of supervised release.

The counts he was sentenced for charged that he, Dean, and Harvey had a tacit understanding to possess and distribute cocaine — count 1 — and a charge that he and Dean on September 23 of 2019 aided and abetted one another to possess and distribute 500 or more grams of cocaine.

Dever dismissed count 2 — a use of a weapon count — against Whitaker, which he had entered a plea of not guilty.

The charge reflecting the distribution of 500 kilos or more of cocaine stems from a 2019 traffic stop in Wilson County in which more than 10 pounds were seized in a joint operation with the Roanoke Rapids Police Department, North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office. Both Dean and Whitaker were charged with trafficking cocaine in that case.