Jail
10 Years in Jail for Selling Lightbulbs
24/08/07 14:12 Filed in: Generally
Interesting|Politics
In the spring of 1994, the Tucker family received
lengthy prison sentences -- 10 years for Steve, 16
years for his older brother Gary, and 10 years for
his brother's wife, Joanne -- without possibility of
parole, for the curiously worded federal crime of
"conspiracy to manufacture marijuana."
Yet federal prosecutors never charged them with buying, selling, growing, transporting, smoking or even possessing marijuana. An 18-month DEA investigation had failed to turn up direct evidence connecting the Tuckers to even a single joint.
Instead, they were locked away for selling the lamps, fertilizer and gardening hardware from the small hydroponic supply shop Gary operated on Buford Highway that enabled their customers to grow pot.
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Yet federal prosecutors never charged them with buying, selling, growing, transporting, smoking or even possessing marijuana. An 18-month DEA investigation had failed to turn up direct evidence connecting the Tuckers to even a single joint.
Instead, they were locked away for selling the lamps, fertilizer and gardening hardware from the small hydroponic supply shop Gary operated on Buford Highway that enabled their customers to grow pot.
Read the whole article
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