Ringleader of Crips Drug Scheme Gets Life
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A California man who authorities said was the ringleader of a drug scheme involving the Los Angeles Crips street gang was sentenced in Indianapolis on Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
U.S. District Judge S. Hugh Dillin passed the mandatory life sentence on Jerome Erick Marshall of Los Angeles, who was convicted on drug and other charges. Dillin also sentenced Mondo Elliot of Los Angeles to 27 years for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and five years for money-laundering. The life term imposed on Marshall was for a cocaine conspiracy and money-laundering.
U.S. Atty. Deborah J. Daniels said Marshall and Elliot directed the shipment of about 30 kilograms of cocaine into the Indianapolis and Minneapolis areas between August, 1989, and September, 1990.
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