United States Drug Enforcement Administration

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson announced that on April 15, 2025, TRAVIS ENCLADE (“ENCLADE”), age 43, was sentenced to 288 months' imprisonment after previously being found guilty of conspiring to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, 40 grams or more of a mixture containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, and 100 grams or more of a mixture containing a detectable amount of heroin, possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, 40 grams or more of a mixture containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, and 100 grams or more of a mixture containing a detectable amount of heroin, and of being a felon in possession of firearms. Following his imprisonment, ENCLADE will be placed on supervised release for 5 years.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, ENCLADE and his co-defendant, conspired together, and with others, to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl in New Orleans from August 2022 through October 12, 2022.  During this time, ENCLADE and the co-defendant engaged in multiple hand-to-hand transactions, almost daily, with drug customers in the Hollygrove area.

In September 2022, law enforcement identified a residence in the 3500 block of Encampment Street in New Orleans as a stash house used by the co-defendant and ENCLADE.  Both the co-defendant and ENCLADE each made short trips to the stash house regularly.  Both men, also had key access to enter the house. All of these facts were indicative of going in the house quickly to access drugs.  Law enforcement executed a search warrant at the stash house, and other addresses associated with the co-defendant and ENCLADE, on October 12, 2022.

During the search of the stash house, law enforcement seized over 534 grams of heroin and fentanyl, over 120 grams of fentanyl, and 363 grams of methamphetamine, which included 327.5 grams of pure methamphetamine.  Law enforcement also seized a Diamondback, Model DB9, multicaliber pistol, and a Palmetto State Armory, Model PA-X9, multicaliber pistol.  The stash house was nearly vacant other than the drug paraphernalia, such as numerous unused vacuum seal bags, a plastic mixer bottle containing a brownish residue, numerous digital scales with suspected drug residue, a large mechanical press used to compress drugs into kilogram shaped packages for later distribution, and several bags of brown sugar, which is often used a cutting agent.