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 Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:20 am Post subject: Former Sheriff Back To Jail For Smoking Marijuana |
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Former Sheriff Back To Jail For Smoking Marijuana
MACON -- Former Telfair County Sheriff Ronnie Walker -- who served time in federal prison for protecting marijuana growers -- must return to prison by Valentine's Day after he admitted smoking marijuana while on supervised release.
The 58-year-old Walker was ordered to report to the federal prison in Jesup by February 14th.
Court documents show U.S. District Court Judge Avant Edenfield sentenced Walker on January 12th to an additional six months in prison, according to court documents.
In 1994, Walker was sentenced to ten years in prison plus five years of supervised release after pleading guilty to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana. He was accused of protecting marijuana growers while he was sheriff.
Court records show after serving eight years in prison, Walker was released in 2002. He submitted to a urine test November eighth as a condition of his supervised release. The test was positive for marijuana, and a second test confirmed the results.
The documents say at the time Walker denied smoking marijuana.
If Walker had stuck to that story, the judge would likely have sentenced him to a longer period, the court order said. The judge said Walker's "forthrightness" at the hearing led him to reduce the term.
Walker was among 25 people indicted after an investigation by the F.B.I. and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
He was sheriff of Telfair County from 1984 to 1992 and previously served as a state senator.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/6275870/detail.html
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