Han Gil Defendant Who Sexually Assaulted, Allegedly Murdered Young Drug User Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison | USAO-NDTX

The closing defendant in the Han Gil drug trafficking situation was sentenced currently to 40 years in federal jail, introduced U.S. Legal professional for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.

In June 2021, right after 7 times of trial, a jury convicted Bryan Reshad Hill, 39, of conspiracy to distribute heroin and crack cocaine. He was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Choose Karen Gren Scholer.

According to proof introduced at trial, Mr. Hill, aka “Black,” dealt heroin and cocaine out of Han Gil Resort City, a drug infested institution shut down by the feds in March 2019. He and other sellers paid an inflated every day fee, dubbed a “drug tax,” to induce the hotel’s proprietor to change a blind eye to the trafficking developing within the making.   

The Han Gil – which served as property foundation for various large-amount traffickers – observed four confirmed deaths, two non-deadly shootings, and dozens of drug-related incidents in the months right before its closure. Numerous drug buyers, who generally injected them selves although still on the premises, have been subjected to brutality (such as beatings and burnings with a butane torch) and sexual abuse by the dealers headquartered there. The lodge, once located caddy-corner to a local elementary college, has because been demolished.

In accordance to evidence presented at his sentencing hearing, Mr. Hill raped and presumably murdered a 19-calendar year-old drug person within one of the Han Gil trap rooms on Dec. 27, 2018.

A witness to the assault testified at Mr. Hill’s jury trial that she read the defendant notify the victim, “stop preventing, you can not get.” The witness afterwards observed the girl’s lifeless entire body on the floor of restroom just after Mr. Hill exited. Her corpse was dumped in a park in Oak Cliff and recovered a thirty day period later.

For the duration of the hearing, Decide Scholer said on the document that centered upon her evaluation of surveillance footage taken from the hotel – which showed the defendant carry the around-unconscious target into the toilet, then exit the bathroom a limited time later wearing gloves on both equally arms (obtain footage below) – she decided that due to the fact the female was not able to consent to a sexual intercourse act, Mr. Hill experienced perpetrated a sexual assault in opposition to a vulnerable victim.

Her demise was just one particular of many stemming from drug incidents at Han Gil. Two previous Coppell Higher Faculty learners, each age 22, died of overdoses all through the summertime of 2018, and the human body of an unfamiliar male was eliminated from the home that fall.

20 three supplemental defendants have already been sentenced in this case, such as Han Gil proprietor Su Amos Mun, who pleaded responsible to retaining a drug involved premises and was sentenced to 20 many years in federal jail, and lead supplier Eric Dewayne Freeman, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to have with the intent to distribute heroin, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possession of a firearm by a felon and was sentenced to 30 several years in federal jail.

“Behind the walls of the Han Gil, this defendant fully commited actually heinous acts,” claimed U.S. Lawyer Chad Meacham. “It has been 4 a long time considering the fact that our office environment commenced its investigation of Han Gil Resort City, and currently, we are proud to provide this sordid case to a shut. We know, having said that, that our perform is considerably from in excess of. We will proceed our crack down on violent drug traffickers and the establishments that make it possible for them to run.”

“To say the crimes that transpired at the Han Gil Hotel had been horrendous would not be adequate to describe the diploma of violence, viciousness, and discomfort that occurred at the hands of Mr. Hill and other people,” said DEA Special Agent in Demand Eduardo A. Chávez.  “During this time exactly where we honor Victims’ Rights 7 days, DEA Dallas will continue to operate tirelessly to continue to keep these atrocities and other acts of drug-associated violence from repeating themselves.”

The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Dallas Area Division conducted the investigation with support from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Discipline Office, the Coppell Law enforcement Division, the Dallas Police Section, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives’ Dallas Discipline Business, the U.S. Marshal’s Support, IRS – Criminal Investigations, Homeland Stability Investigations, the U.S. Postal Inspection Company, and the Grand Prairie, Arlington, Grapevine, Lancaster, Plano, Farmers Branch, Garland, Rowlett, Denton, Lewisville, and McKinney law enforcement departments.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Rick Calvert and Phelesa Male prosecuted the legal circumstance. Assistant U.S. Lawyers Scott Hogan, Lindsey Beran (fmr.), and Braden Civins taken care of the civil situation. Assistant U.S. Lawyers Beverly Chapman and Melissa Childs oversaw the forfeiture