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Man sells 1 ton of pot through restaurant
Found via the new news-compilation site Topix, which compiles news by topic and geographical location. I highly recommend it!A Jamaican man living in Pennsylvania was sentenced to 10 years in prison and faces deportation for using a Caribbean restaurant to sell more than a ton a marijuana, sometimes in takeout containers. I guess the name "Ganja to Go" wasnât obvious enough... Herbert Heath, 41, of Monroeville, was sentenced Thursday for his October guilty pleas to drug conspiracy, money laundering and immigration charges. Heathâs attorneys, federal public defender Crystina Kowalczyk and Florida lawyer Martin Roth, did not return phone calls for comment after business hours on Thursday. Federal prosecutors said Heath, who had twice been deported for gun and drug charges, used a false name to move to western Pennsylvania in the late 1990s, where he began selling marijuana out of a restaurant in suburban Pittsburgh. Federal prosecutors estimated he and his accomplices sold a ton of the drug between 1997 and 2002. Prosecutors said Heath also wired drug money back home to Jamaica. Too bad he got caught so soon. He might have had amnesty under the proposed immigration law changes. *spit* Posted by: Dar 2004-01-16 |
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