LITTLE ROCK A Mississippi man convicted by a jury last month of transporting cocaine through the state in 2018 was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday by a federal judge who agreed to sentence the wheelchair-bound man to the mandatory minimum sentence contained in the federal statute.
A Mississippi man convicted by a jury last month of transporting cocaine through the state in 2018 was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday by a federal judge who agreed to sentence the wheelchair-bound man to the mandatory minimum sentence contained in the federal statute.
It took a jury of seven men and five women just under 90 minutes to find a Mississippi man guilty of possession of 10 kilograms of cocaine with intent to deliver in connection with a 2018 arrest by state police along Interstate 40 in Lonoke.
Testimony continued Wednesday for a second day in federal court in the trial of a Mississippi man arrested in 2018 after Arkansas State Police reportedly discovered 10 kilos of cocaine over 22 pounds located in two bags inside a rental car he was driving.
A Mississippi man arrested in September 2018 after state troopers discovered 10 kilograms of cocaine in his rental car testified for about an hour Thursday in federal court.