DAVENPORT, IA – Tristan Davis, of Burlington, was sentenced on January 28, 2022, to
over 23 years in prison for his involvement in a drug conspiracy dating back to 2001. He is the
last of eight defendants to be sentenced after they were charged in November 2019. Davis, age
36, originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced to 280 months in federal prison. There
is no parole in the federal prison system.
Davis was previously found guilty, along with Kendrick Page and Breon Armstrong, of
Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances, which included ice methamphetamine and
cocaine base (crack cocaine), after a jury trial in July 2021. At sentencing, United States District
Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey found Davis possessed a firearm related to his drug trafficking
activities and maintained a house in Burlington to store, manufacture and distribute controlled
substances. At sentencing, Chief Judge Jarvey described the conspiracy as “a scourge upon
Burlington and eastern Iowa.” He went on to say the conspiracy was responsible for “huge
quantities of methamphetamine and other controlled substances over a very long period of time.”
Davis was one of eight individuals from Burlington who were charged federally in
November 2019, after the execution of numerous federal search warrants in Burlington, and
elsewhere.
These charges stem from an investigation conducted by numerous federal, state, and local
law enforcement agencies, including: the Southeast Iowa Narcotics Taskforce; Burlington Police
Department; Des Moines County Sheriff’s Office; Federal Bureau of Investigation; West Central
Illinois Taskforce; Quincy, Illinois, Police Department; Drug Enforcement Administration; Iowa
Division of Narcotics Enforcement; Henry County Sheriff’s Office; Mt. Pleasant Police
Department; West Burlington Police Department; Keokuk Police Department; Ft. Madison Police
Department; Lee County Sheriff’s Office; Iowa City Police Department; Johnson County
Sheriff’s Office; North Liberty Police Department; Coralville Police Department; Muscatine
County Sheriff’s Office; Louisa County Sheriff’s Office; Washington County Sheriff’s Office;
Bettendorf Police Department; Illinois State Police; Monmouth, Illinois, Police Department;
Macomb, Illinois, Police Department; Galesburg, Illinois, Police Department; Adams County,
Illinois, Sheriff’s Office; and Fulton County, Illinois, Sheriff’s Office.