Post by WaTcHeR on Jul 28, 2006 12:34:41 GMT -5
07.28.2006 - MOBILE, Ala. A former deputy sheriff from Georgia has been sentenced in Mobile to nearly five years in federal prison for drug trafficking.
Officer Dwayne L. Turner, a Mobile native who worked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, was sentenced to 57 months in prison Tuesday for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana. U.S. Attorney Deborah J. Rhodes says Turner leaded guilty to the drug conspiracy charge.
The 41-year-old from Jonesboro, Georgia, was arrested by F-B-I agents in Montgomery on October 12th on drug trafficking charges stemming from an investigation that involved marijuana and cocaine sales in the Mobile area.
Additional counts brought against Turner related to alleged conspiracies to possess and distribute cocaine were dismissed.
Rhodes said that Turner admitted responsibility for a kilogram of cocaine and eight pounds of marijuana delivered to an undercover agent.
In 2004, Turner had been suspended from the Fulton County Sheriff's Department for allowing a work-release inmate and rap artist to shoot a music video in the maximum security wing of the downtown Atlanta facility.
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Officer Dwayne L. Turner, a Mobile native who worked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, was sentenced to 57 months in prison Tuesday for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana. U.S. Attorney Deborah J. Rhodes says Turner leaded guilty to the drug conspiracy charge.
The 41-year-old from Jonesboro, Georgia, was arrested by F-B-I agents in Montgomery on October 12th on drug trafficking charges stemming from an investigation that involved marijuana and cocaine sales in the Mobile area.
Additional counts brought against Turner related to alleged conspiracies to possess and distribute cocaine were dismissed.
Rhodes said that Turner admitted responsibility for a kilogram of cocaine and eight pounds of marijuana delivered to an undercover agent.
In 2004, Turner had been suspended from the Fulton County Sheriff's Department for allowing a work-release inmate and rap artist to shoot a music video in the maximum security wing of the downtown Atlanta facility.
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