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wyrdjoy23
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12 years for dealer who filmed himself selling drugs in front of child
#20960002 - 12/10/14 11:04 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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A 21-year-old gang member who videotaped himself selling drugs -- with a toddler only inches away -- was sentenced to a dozen years in prison for his role in violent Hollygrove street gang.
William Henderson stood silent as U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle announced his sentence Wednesday (Dec. 10). In the courtroom gallery behind him Henderson's mother shut her eyes and raised her hand above her bowed head, like a someone moved by a church sermon. Henderson's brother and co-defendant, Thomas Henderson, also has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in the case, and has yet to be sentenced.
"I'm sorry for, you know, participating in what I participated in," said Henderson, who had challenged the characterization of his past brushes with the law during previous hearings.
"I take full responsibility for what I did. I'm sorry to my parents for what I did."
In court records filed along with his guilty plea to four conspiracy counts, William Henderson admitted selling heroin and crack with fellow members of the East Hollygrove 17th Ward G.O.D. crew starting in 2009. The acronym G.O.D., stood for "Guns Or Drugs," according to the plea deal, and the gang trafficked heavily in both. Gang leader Charles Johnson has been charged with gunning down 55-year-old Eula Mae Ivey in a 2010 drive-by shooting.
William Henderson's cell phone, seized by police after a 2013 arrest, provided a trove of evidence against him.
Henderson outlined details of his trips and transactions with heroin customers in text messages. He apparently used the phone to videotape a 2012 drug deal, conducted inside a car in November 2012, with Henderson training the camera on an unknown buyer as they passed drugs from the front seat to the back.
Also in the frame was a child, perhaps 5 years old, watching the transaction. Co-defendant Avian Brule, who was driving the car during the deal, received a four-year sentence.
Photographs stored on the phone showed the same child holding a semiautomatic pistol and "dancing around with it," court records state.
While he was jailed in the Orleans Parish Prison on a 2011 attempted murder charge, Henderson spoke regularly on the prison phone. Among other topics of conversation, Henderson tried to get his associates on the outside to reach out to Jamuel Shepard, the man he was accused of trying to shoot, to try and get Shepard to drop the charges.
He also told associates where he had hidden the gun he used to shoot Shepard, and tried to get someone to convince a witness not to testify. But the charges against Henderson were dropped when Shepard refused to cooperate with prosecutors, and Henderson was able to plead guilty to a charge of disturbing the peace. After he was released from jail, Henderson's mother said, he never returned to high school.
Judge Lemelle's sentence was lighter than the nearly 20 years in prison Henderson could have received under federal sentencing guidelines. The judge had invited Henderson's mother to speak, and questioned her about her son's character -- did he have a temper? Was he easily influenced by others? Was the Hollygrove area where he grew up truly crime-ridden? -- before announcing his sentence.
Lemelle noted that Henderson returned to selling drugs even after spending time in jail on the attempted murder charge.
"It was not sufficient to deter him from engaging in illegal drug activity," Lemelle said. "But I certainly realize when we have a young person such as (Henderson), we don't throw away the young people."
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Byrain

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Re: 12 years for dealer who filmed himself selling drugs in front of child [Re: wyrdjoy23]
#20961053 - 12/11/14 08:29 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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12 years for being an irresponsible kid selling something that should be available at the local drug store.
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peterpablo
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Re: 12 years for dealer who filmed himself selling drugs in front of child [Re: Byrain] 1
#20961842 - 12/11/14 12:24 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Byrain said: 12 years for being an irresponsible kid selling something that should be available at the local drug store. 
if you sell heroin, crack and guns to people, you have tried to kill someone and let kids play with guns. you are not an irresponsible kid, you are a danger to society.
even tho drugs should be legalized, they are not and he's are breaking the law. also taking drugs is something way different than making money on someones addiction.
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Bugler Boy
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Re: 12 years for dealer who filmed himself selling drugs in front of child [Re: Byrain]
#20965642 - 12/12/14 08:10 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Byrain said: 12 years for being an irresponsible kid selling something that should be available at the local drug store. 
herion and crack at the local drugstore? Da fuck?
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Byrain

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Re: 12 years for dealer who filmed himself selling drugs in front of child [Re: Bugler Boy]
#20966802 - 12/12/14 01:10 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Far better than people buying drugs of questionable quality from dealers on the street where the money will just go for funding some gang.
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my3rdeye



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Re: 12 years for dealer who filmed himself selling drugs in front of child [Re: Bugler Boy]
#20968576 - 12/12/14 08:29 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Byrain said: 12 years for being an irresponsible kid selling something that should be available at the local drug store. 
herion and crack at the local drugstore? Da fuck?
Don't want to use them then don't. You can buy stuff you can huff at corner store and no cares. Anyone that doesn't support drug legalization is a moron.
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peterpablo
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Re: 12 years for dealer who filmed himself selling drugs in front of child [Re: my3rdeye]
#20974010 - 12/14/14 05:47 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Don't want to use them then don't. You can buy stuff you can huff at corner store and no cares. Anyone that doesn't support drug legalization is a moron.
If you go to a store and try to buy paint thinner (used by almost 100% of the population to remove paint) and the clerk thinks you are having the intention to inhale it, they are forced to refuse you from buying it. I honestly don't know any situation where you can use crack or heroin other than fucking up your life. If you can't see the point in this, maybe you should go back to school instead of calling other people morons.
IMO everyone that is so obsessed with drugs they think they should just make it available to everybody doesn't quite understand how this world works. Harmless drugs with no health risks should be available to adults who don't have any mental issues. But crack and heroin? Please think before speaking.
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