NATION : Drug Smuggler Gets Life Terms
A pilot for the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel was sentenced today to two consecutive life terms and fined $2 million, and a second Californian received a 10-year sentence for conspiracy to import cocaine.
Jack Carlton Reed, 59, formerly of San Pedro, is already serving a 15-year prison term for another drug-conspiracy conviction in a trial with Carlos Lehder Rivas, a co-founder of the Medellin cocaine cartel.
U.S. District Judge John H. Moore II ordered one of the life terms to run at the same time as Reed’s current sentence, but each of the life terms will be consecutive.
Co-defendant Donald Lady, 41, of Pomona was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on one count of conspiracy to import cocaine. He allegedly secured a farm in Mexico for cocaine flights.
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