January 31, 2012

SandBox Comments: Aspen Daily News "L.A. man latest to plead guilty in Aspen cocaine case"

Aspen Daily News:

"..A Los Angeles resident who gave $38,000 to an Aspen man for a kilo of cocaine in 2010 pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Denver.

Arrested in May in connection with a Los Angeles-to-Aspen trafficking ring, Anthony Buchanan, 67, is one of seven people, including five Aspen-area residents, who have reached a plea agreement in the case.

Federal prosecutor Michele Korver will recommend that Buchanan, who pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing more than 500 grams of cocaine, be sentenced to 18 months of home detention and three years of probation. A conspiracy charge was dropped in the plea deal, according to court documents.

On Sept. 24, 2010, Buchanan met Wayne Reid, of Aspen, in a hotel room in Pasadena, Calif., the plea agreement says. There, he gave Reid, described by federal drug agents as the leader of the operation that brought to the Roaring Fork Valley multiple kilos of the drug, approximately $38,000, Korver wrote.

Reid then bought two kilos from California resident Alfonso Elvao-Allocati, 71, in the hotel’s parking garage, returned to the room and gave one to Buchanan, according to the plea agreement..."  (Read more?  Click title)

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