Here's the real deal Ketman
the_ketaman said:
what does this have to do with coke?
read the fucking thread title, it says "most fucked up coke expierience" not "shitty random stories that have nothing to do with coke" so i would appreciate it if you would either post something to do with coke or dont post at all.
He set my older brother Paul out years ago,and my brother jumped bail went to Fla and the dude told the bondsman where to find him. My brother's doing 35 years now. True,The post didn't mention cocaine.I apologize for getting sidetracked but That fucker finally got his and it made me think about that SOB.This is what happened to my brother,he's been down 7 years, and might die in prison.He's old school and kept his mouth shut, everyone else plea bargained. Definitely my most Fucked Up cocaine experience.
Spears convicted on two cocaine charges
BLOUNTVILLE - A Sullivan County jury convicted a Kingsport car repair garage owner of two cocaine charges Friday in one of the largest cocaine operations ever busted in the area.
Paul Spears, 57, will face 25 to 40 years in prison for each Class A felony - conspiracy to sell or deliver more than 1000 grams of cocaine and possession of more than 1000 grams of cocaine with intent to resell - if prosecutors can convince a judge he is a Range II offender. That means he has a combination of prior felony convictions.
The jury returned a guilty verdict after three hours of deliberation but did not impose a fine in either count, apparently because the jury instructions indicated in one part that a fine was optional. State law mandates a minimum fine of $20,000 for the crime Spears faced.
Circuit Judge Jerry Beck reinstructed the jury, and the panel returned the guilty verdicts with a $20,000 fine on each count.
Five others were charged along with Spears in the conspiracy after a lengthy investigation by the Second Judicial Drug Task Force and cooperating police agencies. Two of those charged testified against Spears during his four-day trial, and all of them pleaded guilty in exchange for recommended sentences from the district attorney's office.
Prosecutors said Spears was the ''go-to'' man of a major South Florida drug dealer, Jesus Arcia, and not the user and small-time seller that defense attorney Randy Falin portrayed him to be.
''We're talking about a man charged with the highest amount of the second-most-dangerous drug,'' District Attorney Greeley Wells told the jury during closing arguments. ''You've been able to look through a window and see the inside of a major drug organization. It's a business. They're into it for one thing - money.''
Spears' garage on Shipp Springs Road was raided in November 1996, and authorities found twelve Mason jars filled with repackaged cocaine. They also seized more than $300,000 at his garage and residence, some of which Spears admitted was drug money.
Testimony from two others charged, Arcia and Allison Tunnell - the strip-bar dancer who introduced the two men - revealed that during 1996, Spears received four drug shipments from Florida totaling more than ten kilos of cocaine.
Tunnell said she helped Spears repackage the drug and sell it. Arcia said he would send couriers to pick up drug proceeds, which were later wired back to Florida. Those couriers included Armando Perez, Jacqueline Fernandez and Oscar Ramirez.
Prosecutors will seek to have Spears sentenced as a Range II offender based on his prior criminal history. He was convicted in 1985 of selling or delivering a controlled substance in Volusia, Fla., and in 1987 of felony bail jumping and possession of marijuana for resale, possession of cocaine for resale, and possession of Schedule IV drugs for resale in Sullivan County Tn. Wells said he intends to seek the maximum punishment for Spears.
''It sure wouldn't bother me to ask for 80 years for someone who had this much cocaine,'' Wells said outside the courtroom.
Spears is scheduled for sentencing April 15.
Arcia pleaded guilty as charged and received a 15-year sentence and $4,000 fine; Perez and Ramirez both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deliver more than one-half gram but less than 500 grams of cocaine and possession of the same amount, and each received 10 years in prison and a $4,000 fine; Fernandez and Tunnell pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deliver more than five-tenths gram of cocaine and possession of the same amount and each received eight years in prison and a $4,000 fine. Fernandez and Tunnell are eligible for probation.
The two men met at the Mouse’s Ear bar in Gray, where Allison Tunnell worked as a dancer. She testified Thursday that after Arcia had a falling-out with a previous drug seller, he asked her to help him find another person to assist his efforts to distribute large amounts of cocaine.
‘‘I told him I couldn’t distribute the amount he wanted to, but that I might know someone,’’ she said.
Arcia, Tunnell, Armando Perez, Oscar Ramirez and Jacqueline Fernandez were all indicted along with Spears last February, charged with criminal conspiracy to sell or deliver more than 1000 grams of cocaine and possession of more than 1000 grams of cocaine with intent to sell or deliver.
Spears’ five alleged co-conspirators struck a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to lesser charges with recommended sentences in exchange for their testimony against Spears. His attorney, Randy Falin, called the agreements ‘‘sweetheart deals’’ that allow the other defendants to ‘‘go home in a few months and Mr. Spears goes away for a long time.’’
Tunnell said during the time she was around Spears she only saw him use cocaine once or twice. She was at Spears’ garage the day Drug Task Force agents raided the property and seized 1229 grams of cocaine and more than $300,000.
Tunnell at first denied any involvement in the drug trade, but she testified that after she was arrested last summer, she told DTF Agent Bryan Bishop everything she knew. Falin implied Tunnell may have embellished her statement to better her chances at a lesser punishment.
Tunnell said she was only present during the first two drug deliveries, but that Spears told her he had received kilo shipments on two other occasions. She said she saw a block of drugs wrapped in cellophane and brown paper with what Spears called ‘‘cartel markings.’’
Tunnell said she helped Spears cut the cocaine , then helped him sell smaller packages. She said she sold mostly to other dancers at the Mouse’s Ear but also sold kilo quantities to another man.Spears refused to co-operate and is the only defendant who will stand trial.
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A Kingsport man convicted in the largest cocaine delivery case ever tried in Sullivan County was sentenced to 35 years in prison Thursday.
Paul Spears, 57, 236 Shipp Spring Road, was the local connection of a cocaine ring from south Florida and sold the drug from his Kingsport garage from March until November 1996.
Spears was one of six defendants in the case, but the only one who went to trial. He was convicted earlier this year of conspiracy to sell or deliver more than 1000 grams of cocaine and conspiracy to possess more than 1000 grams of cocaine.
The others opted to plead guilty, and two testified against Spears during his trial.
During the sentencing hearing, District Attorney General Greeley Wells and Assistant District Attorney Gene Perrin argued that Spears should receive a harsher sentence than the others because he has an extensive criminal history.
Judge Jerry Beck agreed and classified Spears as a Range II offender, which gave him a sentence range of 25 to 40 years for each charge.