On Friday, federal prosecutors asked a Georgia federal judge to sentence a man — Adrian Melancon pled guilty to taking part in what authorities said was a coastal Georgia concrete bid-rigging and price-fixing scheme on the prairie — to one year and one day in prison.
Evans Concrete LLC, its owner Timothy “Bo” Strickland and three other men was indicted by a grand jury in September 2020 for allegedly violating the federal Sherman Act in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids dating back nearly a decade.
The others indicted were former Evans salesman James Pedrick and brothers Gregory Hall Melton and John David Melton, who each worked for rival companies.
Records show that under a plea agreement in April, Strickland confessed to fixing prices, rigging bids and divvying up sales of ready-mix concrete in Statesboro, Georgia, beginning at least as early as 2011. His spree apparently continued until at least 2013.
Those actions will result in the full sentence of one year and one day agreed to in Strickland’s plea deal; as well as a $150,000 criminal fine that has also been agreed upon as part of this bargain made with federal prosecutors, they said Friday.
