Ohio (USA) man pleads guilty in $100M drug ring

[boroboro]

Don't know how they got to $100 million, but ....

http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20090318/UPDATES01/90318005

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to running what federal authorities have called a $100 million drug ring.

Forty-year-old Donald Dailey faces a sentence of life in prison.

Authorities say FBI and IRS agents raided his Pataskala home last year and found about $3.2 million in the walls of his house and more than a ton of marijuana inside a trailer in the driveway.

Dailey was indicted along with 14 other people and accused of masterminding a large-scale, drug-smuggling operation that transported marijuana to Ohio in recreational vehicles.

Appearing in federal court in Columbus, Dailey on Tuesday pleaded guilty to several charges, including operating a continuing criminal enterprise.

A sentencing date has not been set.

 

[movingtocally]

I hope we can get the transcripts from the trial. I'd love to know how they got caught.

 

[stink.whistler]

I hope we can get the transcripts from the trial. I'd love to know how they got caught.

I bet you a trailer full of weed (or a 100 million dollars, whichever the government would determine was more valuable) that it was a low level employee popped on a minor offense who rolled on the boss. But yea, I'd be curious to hear as well.

 

[79towncar]

Hes basically screwed.. But thes no way he will get life. I bet he plead guilty and gets 15 years. That " operating a continueing crimminal enterprise" charge packs 15 years by itself. I bet he gets about that 15 years or so. Also they found that 3 million... Thats what sucks the worst. 15 years is worth 3.2 million. If you figure in 15 years of work you will never make close to that. But freedom is non-replaceable..

 

[Molson]

More...

Donald Dailey Jr., 40, as expected pleaded guilty to five criminal and four forfeiture counts during a hearing Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Columbus, said Special Agent Craig Casserly of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations Division.

One of those charges was continuing a criminal enterprise, also known as the federal kingpin statute, and carries a minimum mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

He's scheduled to be sentenced within the next two months...

http://newarkadvocate.com/article/20090318/NEWS01/903180320/1002/rss01

Kind of funny how the above article states he had 4.2 mil in cash, and the OP's article stated he had 3.2 mil. LOL... not necessarily a small difference...

 

[willostat]

that true about the 2 year old? sure seems to happen a lot. little 7 year old johnnie grabbing a sack from dads stash going to school handing it out to friends, yeah dad has a magic shiny room! oh really?

 

[Ajunta Pall]

This case should illustrate why it's important to keep your shit spread out seperately. Otherwise you end up being a nice present for the fucking oinkers, you, your money, and your weed all in one convenient location.

 

[tenotoge]

well for them to start cutting into the walls, the warrant would need to specifically state that. So who would know he stashed money in his wall?

 

[FreedomFGHTR]

Damn that sucks.

 

[Oliver Pantsoff]

He was doing to much. Seems like he was addicted to the life<<<

OP

 

[movingtocally]

No way that's all his money. He's probably gotta couple mil here, couple there, etc..

To have your operation AND all your cash in the same location? I don't think a guy who maneuvers his way to the top of the illicit food chain would be that dumb.