Nine Greene County residents have been named in a federal indictment that charges them with taking part in a conspiracy to distribute various controlled drugs here between January and October of this year.

The first count of the indictment charges that from on or about Jan. 1, 2009, to on or about Oct. 14, 2009, ... Latacha Nicole Curtis, Monica Louise Duncan, Paul Haney, Iesha Jones, Regina Russell, Walter Eugene Sayers, Jr., Mary I. Shelton, Brian Keith Wampler, and Travis Eugene Williams, (along with others unknown to the grand jury) conspired in the distribution and possession, with the intent to distribute, a quantity of pills containing a detectable amount of Oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance ... ."

A second indictment count charges that they conspired to possess and distribute pills containing a detectable amount of Hydrocodone, a Schedule II controlled substance.

A third indictment count charges the defendants with conspiring to possess and distribute pills containing a detectable amount of alprazolam, a Schedule IV controlled substance.

The fourth count of the indictment charges the nine defendants with the distribution and possession, with the intent to distribute, pills containing a detectable amount of Diazepam, a Schedule IV controlled substance.

The government is seeking a money judgment of $316,795, which allegedly "represents the proceeds for the sale of the pills containing Oxycodone, hydrocodone, alprazolam, and diazepam obtained during the course of the conspiracies..."

The government is seeking the money from the nine persons "who shall be jointly and severally liable for the money judgment."

One indictment count alleges that Curtis, Duncan, Shelton and Wampler, aided and abetted by each other, on, or about, May 5, 2009, did knowingly, intentionally, and without authority, possess with the intent to distribute a quantity of pills containing a detectable amount of Oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance.

Another indictment count charges that, on or about June 23, Curtis, Duncan, Haney, Jones, Russell, Sayers, Shelton and Wampler, "aided and abetted by each other, did knowingly, intentionally, and without authority, possess with the intent to distribute a quantity of pills containing a detectable amount of Oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance."

Assistant U.S. Attorney Helen Smith said four of the nine defendants -- Curtis, Duncan, Sayers and Wampler -- were remanded to custody by U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Inman.

Defendants Haney, Jones, and Russell were released from custody on bond pending their initial appearances in U.S. District Court.

Defendant Williams remains in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Correction in Nashville.

A trial date for the nine defendants will not be set until Williams can be brought here from state custody to make an initial court appearance.