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#22387443 - 10/16/15 08:33 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Boston Globe - Milton J. Valencia GLOBE STAFF OCTOBER 16, 2015 http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/15/year-old-marijuana-dealer-pleads-guilty-federal-court/R0jeJc6aLOaNflcbtjZynK/story.html
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80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court
Marshall Dion is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 11 after entering a guilty plea.
He owned houses in Massachusetts, Colorado, and Arizona, had $11 million stashed in a North Reading storage facility, and once crawled away from a plane crash in Wisconsin as thousands of dollars in cash (suspected drug profits) floated through the air around him.
But his dramatic exploits came to an end Thursday, when 80-year-old Marshall Herbert Dion, wearing tan prison clothing, shuffled to the witness stand to plead guilty to running a massive marijuana-dealing and money-laundering operation.
Under a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Dion could serve 5 to 7 years in federal prison, ending a lucrative criminal career that spanned decades until a chance traffic stop in Kansas.
“Over the course of the conspiracy . . . he had sold approximately 3,000 to 10,000 kilograms of marijuana,” Assistant US Attorney Leah Foley said during a brief court hearing.
Dion’s lawyer, Hank Brennan, said later that “Mr. Dion has embraced his responsibility and is looking forward to the next chapter in his life.”
Dion’s unraveling began during a traffic stop in Junction City, Kan., in June 2013, when a police officer pulled him over for driving 80 in a 75 m.p.h. zone. During the stop, the officer searched Dion’s beat-up pickup truck and found nearly $850,000 in cash.
The discovery sparked a federal investigation that ultimately led to the discovery of $2 million in a bank account, another $880,000 in an Arizona building, and the storage facility in North Reading, where authorities found 395 pounds of marijuana and $11 million in cash.
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Foley told US District Judge Denise Casper that authorities found travel logs that indicate Dion had sold more than 3,000 kilograms of marijuana — and possibly as many as 10,000 kilograms — dating back to 1992.
Dion’s decision to plead guilty Thursday caps a lengthy criminal career. He was convicted in Massachusetts in the late 1980s of drug trafficking after authorities in Boston found about 180 pounds of marijuana in a 1986 Chrysler sedan. Police later found 101 pounds of marijuana stashed in a commercial storage building in Lynnfield.
A Boston police spokesman told the Globe at the time that “apparently he has houses all over New England. He’s a major operator, there’s no question.”
After the plane crash in Wisconsin in 1985, Dion was found crawling through a muddy field, though he denied that the $112,000 in cash found inside the plane and floating through the air was his.
For Dion’s latest exploits, Casper could sentence him to prison for a term ranging from 60 to 87 months for conspiracy to deal marijuana, possession with intent to deal marijuana, and money laundering, under the deal he reached with prosecutors. He had faced a minimum mandatory sentence of 10 years in prison if he had been convicted in a trial. He is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 11.
Under the plea agreement, however, Dion’s conviction and guilty plea would be vacated if he is successful in an appeal he is pursuing before a higher court. That appeal is based on what he calls an unconstitutional search of his truck after the traffic stop in Kansas.
Dion told Casper that he agreed with everything Foley said about him in court Thursday excepttwo things: That the Kansas officer had a reason to stop him for speeding, and that he consented to the search of the truck.
“There’s no way the officer could have known if I was speeding, even if I was, which I wasn’t,” Dion said.
Then he added, “There’s no way I would have agreed to a search of my property.”
The discovery sparked a federal investigation that ultimately led to the discovery of $2 million in a bank account, another $880,000 in an Arizona building, and the storage facility in North Reading, where authorities found 395 pounds of marijuana and $11 million in cash.
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Foley told US District Judge Denise Casper that authorities found travel logs that indicate Dion had sold more than 3,000 kilograms of marijuana — and possibly as many as 10,000 kilograms — dating back to 1992.
Dion’s decision to plead guilty Thursday caps a lengthy criminal career. He was convicted in Massachusetts in the late 1980s of drug trafficking after authorities in Boston found about 180 pounds of marijuana in a 1986 Chrysler sedan. Police later found 101 pounds of marijuana stashed in a commercial storage building in Lynnfield.
A Boston police spokesman told the Globe at the time that “apparently he has houses all over New England. He’s a major operator, there’s no question.”
After the plane crash in Wisconsin in 1985, Dion was found crawling through a muddy field, though he denied that the $112,000 in cash found inside the plane and floating through the air was his.
For Dion’s latest exploits, Casper could sentence him to prison for a term ranging from 60 to 87 months for conspiracy to deal marijuana, possession with intent to deal marijuana, and money laundering, under the deal he reached with prosecutors. He had faced a minimum mandatory sentence of 10 years in prison if he had been convicted in a trial. He is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 11.
Under the plea agreement, however, Dion’s conviction and guilty plea would be vacated if he is successful in an appeal he is pursuing before a higher court. That appeal is based on what he calls an unconstitutional search of his truck after the traffic stop in Kansas.
Dion told Casper that he agreed with everything Foley said about him in court Thursday excepttwo things: That the Kansas officer had a reason to stop him for speeding, and that he consented to the search of the truck.
“There’s no way the officer could have known if I was speeding, even if I was, which I wasn’t,” Dion said.
Then he added, “There’s no way I would have agreed to a search of my property.”
Sad state of affairs putting an old man in jail when MA is expected to be a legal state at some point in the next couple years. What do people make of this? Apparently he was a big player, but I suspect there are thousands like him and this is just the tip of the cola.
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: moonrockmushy] 3
#22387526 - 10/16/15 09:07 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Kansas fucking cops. I've been illegally searched by those assholes more than once. Hopefully his appeal goes through
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: azur]
#22387584 - 10/16/15 09:32 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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He should have given up five years ago- he would have been set.
Probably just couldn't let such a lucrative thing go. I don't think he should be punished but they don't look to favorably on the drug let alone dealing anything in mass quantities tax free.
Man that is a lot of cash.
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: Atreyu] 1
#22387750 - 10/16/15 10:17 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah get rid of the peaceful old guy and let 20 wannabe gangsters take his place, thanks for doing us a solid kansas.
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: Ishida]
#22387805 - 10/16/15 10:32 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Going 80 in a 75 mph zone? What the fuck? Those cops must be real dicks, in most places that I have been cops don't mess with you for just five miles over.
Sounds like the DEA tipped off someone so they could make a "legal" traffic stop for speeding and "accidentally" find the sum of $.
Fucking pigs.
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: Pariahprose] 1
#22389166 - 10/16/15 04:16 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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That same cop caught me with almost 100k about a month ago on the same stretch of road in junction. Fuck Geary county.
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: azur]
#22390893 - 10/16/15 09:57 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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azur said: Kansas fucking cops. I've been illegally searched by those assholes more than once. Hopefully his appeal goes through
I like how if you look at that map someone created of the best road trip in america, you completely skip kansas.
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: vandago]
#22391006 - 10/16/15 10:13 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's totally true. Oklahoma too. I was out there working They'll put big lit up road signs on the interstate saying "drug checkpoint ahead" and then when people get nervous and get off the next exit the pigs are waiting to search the car. That didn't happen to me. I figured what was up and knew they couldn't put a riad block on an interstate. But they've gotten me other ways. Kansas has great people and the north eastern part of the state is beautiful. Other than that, stay away from there.
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: azur]
#22391065 - 10/16/15 10:22 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Stay the fuck out of Geary county anyhow. It's the only place in the country that doesn't have a grand jury. Your case is presented to a judge, who then sides with the police, then you proceed with court shit. Cases never get thrown out.
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: Matt87]
#22391072 - 10/16/15 10:24 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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They sure do love their civil forfeiture around there.
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: Matt87]
#22391433 - 10/16/15 11:53 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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How in the hell did that cop find $850,000 in untraceable drug money and not take it all? I guess there still are are few boy scouts left in LE...
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#22391775 - 10/17/15 02:58 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'd watch a TV show about him... Netflix or AMC better be on this shit.
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: Achillita]
#22391779 - 10/17/15 03:02 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Fuckin...little pablo escobar of weed haha... So...he had like 300lbs of weed... I wonder if he owned a forklift to move it around with...
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#22391979 - 10/17/15 06:21 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Cognitive_Shift said: How in the hell did that cop find $850,000 in untraceable drug money and not take it all? I guess there still are are few boy scouts left in LE...
I guarantee you that he did swipe some. In our case, about ten thousand disappeared. One of my friends had a case last year in a different city where the police stole about the same amount. Oh, they will steal some cash for sure.
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: Matt87]
#22392166 - 10/17/15 07:48 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I live in kansas. It's bullshit. It's a goddamn flyover state and should be used for nuclear weapons testing.
Except for Lawrence.
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: FractalMind]
#22392178 - 10/17/15 07:53 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Lawrence is just like any other hippy town in the US.
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Re: 80-year-old marijuana dealer pleads guilty in federal court [Re: azur]
#22397666 - 10/18/15 01:13 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Haha. Denied that $112k in cash floating around in the air was his. HAHAHAHAHAHA
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