NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — It's been a roller coaster of a ride for Marvin Bazemore Jr., and while a court has given him the $250,000 that was found in his mother's car after she was killed, he was also given five years in prison after being found guilty of drug-related charges. In March 2021, his m other, Alicia Hereford, and his sister, Morgan Bazemore, were killed in a double-murder on Goff Street in Norfolk. In October 2022, police seized marijuana, scales, cocaine and money from his car. Previously: Man accused of killing mother, daughter arrested in Norfolk on Tuesday In July 2023, Kenyatta Jones, the man who killed his mother and sister, took a plea deal and was sentenced to eight years in jail. He was convicted of two counts of manslaughter after a key witness refused to cooperate with the prosecution. Previously: Man convicted of killing mother, daughter in Norfolk sentenced to eight years In 2024, an attorney for the estate of Bazemore Jr.'s mother took the city and the police department to court. When investigators searched Hereford's car after the shooting, they found more than $250,000 in cash, which they seized as evidence. Throughout the course of the investigation and near-trial of Jones, police were never able to find an explanation for where the money came from or what Hereford intended to do with it. "When I heard about the quarter of $1 million in the trunk of the victim's car, and the nearly $15,000 in counterfeit on the floorboards, that set off all kinds of alarm bells for me," Norfolk Commonwealth's Attorney Ramin Fatehi told 10 On Your Side in an interview. Indeed, court documents suggest that police thought the money was suspicious. In fact, an accounting of Hereford's income suggested she was deeply in debt. In a filing responding to Hereford's estate's claims for the money in court, attorneys for the city noted that she had declared bankruptcy twice, in 2000 and 2014. The latter was discharged in 2019. A police affidavit from June 2024 revealed that a confidential informant told investigators the family owed the money to Jones, "related to a financial scheme all parties were involved in." But the police apparently couldn't connect the dots to anything concrete. On March 7, a court ordered the funds be distributed to Bazemore Jr. and his stepfather. There was no proof the money — apart from a few thousand dollars in counterfeit bills — was dirty. "We would have to determine first — was there a crime that led to that money being [there]? Who committed it? And then, can we prove it? And we had none of those pieces," Fatehi said. Two weeks later, Bazemore Jr. was sentenced to five years in prison by a Norfolk Circuit Court judge after being found guilty of possessing Schedule I/II drugs with the intent to distribute them, as well as possessing those drugs while possessing a firearm in 2022. He was also made to pay a $50,000 fine, which an official source familiar with the case noted was the largest for drug distribution for some time. He could be released as early as 2028. ...read more read less