Cocaine Kingpin Found Guilty
Cocaine kingpin Elrader (Ray Ray) Browning Jr., who prosecutors said operated a major narcotics ring that supplied much of Los Angeles as well as Oakland and Detroit, today was found guilty of 43 drug-related felonies by a federal court jury in Los Angeles. One charge carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole.
A co-defendant, James H. (Doc) Holiday, was found guilty of two of four drug offenses. Holiday, a former leader of the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang, faces a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison, said Assistant U.S. Atty. John S. Gordon, who prosecuted the case. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 22 before U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson.
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