February 22, 2012

SandBox Comments: Aspen Daily News "Aspen man pleads guilty for role in cocaine ring"

Aspen Daily:
"An Aspen man pleaded guilty Tuesday for his role in a local cocaine-trafficking ring and could be sentenced to nine months of house arrest.

Jack Fellner, 62, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine.

Fellner was arrested in May along with five other residents of the upper Roaring Fork Valley and three people from Los Angeles. They were accused of aiding a drug operation between Los Angeles and Aspen that federal agents said brought more than 200 kilos of cocaine to the valley over 15 years.

Charges against one Aspen woman were dropped, another California man remains a fugitive. The others have entered guilty pleas and have either been sentenced or are awaiting their fates.

As a result of the same federal investigation, former Aspen resident Montgomery Chitty, 60, was arrested Feb. 13 in Big Pine Key, Fla. Chitty is charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine...."
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