JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — A 72-year-old pilot from Alaska has been sentenced to seven years in prison for flying into a southern Indiana airport with 200 pounds of marijuana.
The News and Tribune reports Allen Richter of Ketchikan was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty in Clark County Circuit to felony dealing in marijuana and maintaining a common nuisance.
Richter was arrested in November after marijuana valued at up to $500,000 was found in a plane he flew into Clark Regional Airport in Sellersburg.
A probable cause affidavit says federal officials told Indiana State Police before the plane landed that they were tracking a suspicious aircraft from Arizona to Indiana. The plane originally departed from California and the flight plan had changed more than once.
Officials said the aircraft was headed to Maine.
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I'm sure the world is a safer place with him in jail.
Yeah, right.
where
did they find mr POTato head too?
And the real victims are...
...the taxpayers who have to house this guy in prison at $45,000/year.
Weed laws need serious overhauling, but image-conscious politicians will never touch them.
the end result, we send harmless septuagenarians to prison.
pusillanimous_puffin, I can
pusillanimous_puffin,
I can hear the sarcasm in your remark. However, this guy made a choice to break the law. He should have considered the consequences. Tough luck for him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRa9uhiAPBs
The plane was stolen too
The pilot stole the plane and it was the second time he was busted for this type of stunt.