NATION IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Californian Found Guilty in Drug Case
A Californian and two other men were convicted and two Californians were acquitted of drug charges by a federal court jury in Jacksonville, Fla. They had been accused of conspiring with convicted Colombian drug lord Carlos Lehder to distribute cocaine and with operating a continuing criminal enterprise. Found guilty were Donald K. Lady, a Pomona contractor; Jack C. Reed of Jacksonville and Barry Kane of Hyannis, Mass. Kane and Lady were convicted only of the latter charge. Thomas H. Herington of Mill Valley, Calif., and Samuel T. Stewart, an Anaheim air charter operator, were acquitted.
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