Stefon Freshley, a 29-year-old resident of the District of Columbia, has been sentenced to an additional 36 months in prison for conspiring to smuggle contraband into the Central Detention Facility (CDF) while awaiting trial. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
Freshley pleaded guilty on June 27, 2025, to conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States. In addition to his prison sentence, Judge Timothy J. Kelly ordered Freshley to serve three years of supervised release.
Court documents show that in March 2019, Freshley was being held in maximum security at the CDF while awaiting trial in two assault with intent to kill cases. He shared housing with other detainees from the Clay Terrace neighborhood, including co-defendants Marcel Vines and Darius Robertson.
According to authorities, these detainees recruited a Correctional Officer who smuggled items such as a switchblade, iPhone and charger, eyeglasses, marijuana bundles and tobacco, rolling papers, gambling dice, synthetic cannabinoid-laced paper sheets, and cigarettes into the jail. Investigators intercepted one of these containers and placed the officer on administrative leave.
Freshley and others then recruited another officer for further smuggling efforts. Before a July 2024 incident involving contraband delivery at CDF, Freshley coordinated bringing two unlocked phones into the facility. One phone was allegedly used in an attempt to intimidate witnesses during Vines’ murder trial; this prompted increased courthouse security measures.
On July 25, 2024, Department of Corrections staff conducted searches of units housing Clay Terrace detainees and found various items including fentanyl pills—269 blue pills tested positive—along with cigarettes soaked in unknown liquid substances, suboxone strips (255), more liquid-soaked paper sheets (seven), three cellphones, and additional cigarettes.
Previously on August 30, 2024, Freshley received a separate sentence of 90 months for his role as a passenger during a drive-by shooting that injured a teenage boy and his father on December 28, 2018. The boy sustained nine gunshot wounds; his father was also wounded before suspects fled.
Judge Kelly ordered that today’s sentence be served consecutively after Freshley’s earlier sentence related to the shooting case.
The investigation involved the DOC Office of Investigative Services along with support from the Metropolitan Police Department and FBI Washington Field Office. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joshua Gold and Sarah Santiago prosecuted the case.
