August 23, 2013

Memphis Drug Kingpin Sentenced to 9 Life Sentences




In this undated photograph, admitted drug kingpin Craig Petties, then a multi-millionaire, shows off just some of his diamond jewelry paid for through his cocaine trafficking empire

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2400720/Memphis-millionaire-drug-kingpin-sentenced-NINE-life-sentences-cocaine-trafficking-empire.html

Memphis millionaire and drug kingpin is sentenced to NINE life sentences for his cocaine trafficking empire
Craig Petties was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Samuel Mays, who said Petties' crimes were the most serious he had ever seen
Petties pleaded guilty in December 2009 to racketeering, money laundering, drug trafficking and ordering the slayings of four men
He built a multistate drug ring that operated from 1995 to 2008
Cocaine and marijuana were shipped from Mexico to Memphis in semi -trucks, then distributed for sale in Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia and North Carolina
By ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 23:27 EST, 22 August 2013 | UPDATED: 23:49 EST, 22 August 2013

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