SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - A 62-year-old grandmother who prosecutors said ran drugs to support her bingo habit has been sentenced to three years in prison and a $150,000 fine.
Acting on a tip, state police stopped Leticia Villareal Garcia near Bisbee in southeast Arizona in February 2005 and found 214 pounds of marijuana stuffed into the trunk of her car.
Garcia has maintained her innocence, telling the judge at her sentencing Friday that she was unaware of the grass as she headed for a bingo game.
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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Pot-running Arizona granny gets 3 years
Couldn't grandma run her own Bingo parlor with the odds in her favor if she was raking it in selling pot? Come on grandma. You are smart enough to traffic weed, but not smart enough to run a back room Bingo game? Apparently not I suppose.
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