U.S.: 90 year old senteced to prison for transporting cocaine for Mexican cartel

Posted on May 8, 2014 • Filed under: Crime, Drug Activity, Mexico, United States

chicagotribune.com/rueters reported…A 90-year-old Indiana man who admitted serving as a cocaine courier for a Mexican drug cartel was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in federal prison. Leo Sharp, a decorated World War Two combat veteran who turned 90 on Wednesday, was also sentenced to three years supervised release by Judge Nancy Edmunds in U.S. District Court in Detroit. Sharp had told Edmunds before she sentenced him, “All I can tell you your honor is that I’m really heartbroken that I did what I did. But it’s done.” Read Article

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