U.S. Colonel Sentenced
Reuters
NEW YORK —
An Army colonel who headed American anti-drug efforts in Colombia was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home detention Thursday for concealing his knowledge that his wife was laundering drug money while they lived in Bogota.
Col. James Hiett pleaded guilty in April. His wife, Laurie Anne, was sentenced in April to five years for conspiring to smuggle drugs into the United States.
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