Shreveport Felon Found Guilty on Gun and Drug Charges

A Shreveport man faces decades in jail after his conviction on drug and gun charges in Caddo District Court Tuesday, November 15, 2022.

The eight-woman, four-man jury in Caddo District Judge Erin Leigh Waddell Garrett's courtroom deliberated two hours before returning guilty-as-charged verdicts against Flenory Frazier III, 56. 

Frazier, convicted of several felonies in recent years, was on probation on June 11 of this year when probation agents encountered him cleaning out his vehicle that emanated a strong odor of marijuana. Officers searched Frazier’s vehicle and recovered marijuana, digital scales, packaging material, more than $1,500 in cash and a loaded Walther 9-mm handgun. 

He was arrested and charged with possession with intent to distribute the Schedule I controlled dangerous substance marijuana, illegal carrying of a weapons while in possession of the controlled dangerous substance marijuana and possession of a firearm or carrying a concealed weapon by a convicted felon. Those were the charges deliberated by the jury this week.

Frazier will return to Judge Waddell Garrett's courtroom December 20, 2022. He faces one to 10 years in prison with or without hard labor and a fine of up to $50,000 for possession with intent to distribute the Schedule I controlled dangerous substance marijuana; five to 10 years in prison at hard labor without the benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence and a fine of up to $10,000 for illegal carrying of a weapons while in possession of the controlled dangerous substance marijuana; and five to 20 years in prison at hard labor, without the benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence and a fine of at least $1,000 and up to $5,000 for possession of a firearm or carrying a concealed weapon by a convicted felon.