Posted on 10/29/2013 7:57:34 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
BEVERLY — A Lowell man who was carrying nearly half a pound of heroin, and an EBT card that belonged to a Beverly drug user, was sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday after pleading guilty to a drug trafficking charge.
Campeo Armando Diaz-Carola, 45, was originally facing a 15-year minimum mandatory term, but under a recent change in the drug laws and a charge reduction by prosecutors, received the eight-year term in a plea agreement accepted by Salem Superior Court Judge David Lowy.
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I thought if you had an EBT card on you, you couldn’t be convicted of a crime?
“Marcia” Coakley just lost one vote if she chooses to run for higher office. Then again....
Suddenly every star in Hollywood is shakin’
A druggie gave him their EBT card for dope? Say it isn’t so! No one would sell their food stamp card for drugs and let their kids fend for themselves! Would they?
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