The Nation - News from May 16, 1988
A third day of deliberations in the cocaine-smuggling trial of reputed Colombian drug lord Carlos Lehder ended in Jacksonville, Fla., without any sign that the jury was near a verdict. Deliberations were scheduled to resume today. Lehder, 38, and co-defendant Jack Carlton Reed, 57, of San Pedro, Calif., are being tried on charges of conspiring to smuggle 3.3 tons of cocaine into the United States from Colombia from 1978 to 1980. Lehder, reputed to be the leader of Colombia’s Medellin cartel, faces one charge of conspiracy, two counts of importation of cocaine, seven counts of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and one charge of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise. He faces life plus 150 years in prison and up to $350,000 in fines.
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