FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Contact: Melissa Hodges
Public Affairs Director/Spokesperson
Melissa.Hodges@usdoj.gov

MDGA.gov | @USAO_MDGA

ALBANY, Ga. – A Valdosta, Georgia, probationer with a lengthy criminal history who was found
guilty by a federal jury on charges related to controlled substance distribution out of a Valdosta,
Georgia, apartment complex was sentenced to prison recently.

Barry Kiya Daise, 45, of Valdosta, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 240 months in prison to be
followed by three years of supervised release to be served concurrently with any probation
revocation sentence in Brooks County Superior Court by Senior U.S. District Judge W. Louis Sands
on Sept. 21. Daise was convicted by a federal jury of one count of possession with intent to distribute
cocaine and one count of maintaining and using a drug involved premises on Oct. 6, 2022. Daise is
not eligible for parole.

“Despite prior felony convictions involving guns and drug trafficking, the defendant continued to
disregard the law by committing crimes that harm the community,” said U.S. Attorney Peter D.
Leary. “Defendants with long criminal records will face the possibility of federal prosecution for
chronic illegal activity as we continue to partner with law enforcement to identify and hold repeat
and violent offenders accountable.”

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Daise was identified as part of a larger
investigation by the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Division into armed drug
trafficking in August 2019. At the time, Daise was on probation for a prior state felony. Following
several months of surveillance, a search warrant was executed at Daise’s West Hill Avenue
apartment on Nov. 19, 2019. Inside, officers found a loaded firearm stolen from Tifton, Georgia,
ammunition, 48 grams of powder cocaine, digital scales and evidence of crack-cocaine production.
Daise’s cell phone contained messages about selling controlled substances, meeting at his apartment
complex parking lot to conduct the transactions and photos of guns and drugs.

Daise has a lengthy criminal record with prior state felony convictions including possession of a
firearm by a convicted felon in Lowndes County, Georgia, Superior Court and possession of cocaine
with intent to distribute in Brooks County, Georgia, Superior Court.

The case was investigated by the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office, Special Operations Division and
FBI. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sonja Profit and Robert McCullers prosecuted the case.