CRACK DEALER DRAWS LIFE TERM.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Crack dealer ``Freeway'' Ricky Ross, who tried to get his drug conviction overturned by claiming that the CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). supported the Nicaraguan Contras in their drug dealing, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison. Defense attorney Alan Fenster tried to use the issue of alleged CIA involvement in the crack explosion of the 1980s as a reason U.S. District Judge Marilyn L. Huff should set aside Ross' narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. trafficking conviction. She refused and handed down the life sentence, which was mandatory because of two previous convictions. ``The conduct of Ross, James and Brown is not excused by any so-called tenuous ties to the CIA,'' Huff said before the sentencing. ``It's not a legal defense in this case. ``It does not give them a free pass the rest of their lives to further addict people because of something that may have happened in the early 1980s.'' Ross was convicted in March of buying 220 pounds of cocaine for $169,000 from Oscar Danilo Blandon Oscar Danilo Blandón Reyes headed Nicaragua's agricultural imports under Anastasio Somoza. He had a Master's Degree in marketing. When the Somoza government was overthrown in 1979, Blandón fled to the United States, and then raised money for the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), a , a former narcotics trafficker and civilian leader of a CIA-backed guerrilla group, who also worked as an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was established in 1973 by President richard m. nixon as part of the Justice Department, thus uniting a number of federal drug agencies that had often worked at cross-purposes. . ``I would like to tell my mom I'm sorry,'' Ross, 36, told the packed courtroom. ``I'm sorry I fell into this trap. I was the conduit, but I didn't put nothing together . . .'' |
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