Final defendants sentenced to prison in Dumfries hotel drug trafficking conspiracy
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Rashard Perrish Smith, 34, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced today to 18 years and four months in prison for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and cocaine. Co-defendant Joshua Roderick, 41, of Alexandria, was sentenced on Sept. 18 to 15 years and 10 months in prison.
According to court documents, beginning in at least February 2024, Smith and Roderick visited and sometimes resided in the Red Carpet Inn in Dumfries. The Red Carpet Inn, operated by co-defendants Kosha Sharma, 53, and her husband Tarun Sharma, 55, was known in the area as a place where narcotics and commercial sex could be purchased. Kosha and Tarun Sharma channeled illegal activity, including drug trafficking and prostitution, to the third floor and restricted access to that floor to shield the illegal activity from the view of law enforcement and the public. Smith and Roderick regularly sold narcotics, including fentanyl and cocaine, to customers at the Red Carpet Inn. On multiple occasions during the conspiracy, guests overdosed at the hotel. At least two of those overdoses in 2025 were fatal, and Kosha Sharma found both victims’ bodies in third-floor rooms.
Between March 2025 and January 2026, the FBI, Virginia State Police, and Prince William County Police Department conducted a series of undercover operations at the hotel, including twelve controlled purchases of fentanyl from co-defendant Margo Waldon Pierce, 51, who distributed approximately 280.69 grams of fentanyl to undercover officers. For several of these transactions, Roderick provided the fentanyl sold by Pierce.