Second Man Sentenced for Largest Kentucky Marijuana Bust
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Updated: 9:47 PM Jul 1, 2008
Second Man Sentenced for Largest Kentucky Marijuana Bust
The second of two men arrested in the biggest marijuana bust Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement has ever made is sentenced to three years in federal prison.
Posted: 9:47 PM Jul 1, 2008
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The second of two men arrested in the biggest marijuana bust Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement has ever made is sentenced to three years in federal prison.

49-year-old Kermit Aber Garriques of Newburgh, New York pleaded guilty in December to trafficking more than 14-hundred pounds of marijuana.

This past February, Garriques' co-defendant Leon Anthony Bell of the Bronx, New York was sentenced to five years and 10 months in federal prison.

Garriques was the driver of a tractor-trailer KVE stopped on I-65 in May of 2007.

Bell was a passenger.

Inside the trailer was more than 14-pounds of marijuana, with a street value of $2.8-million.

The pair was hauling the pot from Houston, Texas to sell in Ohio.



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