Man gets 12 years for smuggling pot

by Sheryl Kornman on Feb 24, 2009, under Local

Citizen Staff Writer
Law and Order Report

SHERYL KORNMAN

skornman@tucsoncitizen

Steven E. Erwin, 29, of Tucson was sentenced Friday to more than 12 years in prison in a multi-state marijuana smuggling case.

Erwin, 29, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, Ill., on Nov. 3 and admitted he helped to smuggle more than a ton of marijuana from Arizona to Atlanta, St. Louis, East St. Louis and cities in Ohio from 2001 to 2007, said Thomas E. Murphy, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

He and 13 others were charged in the case involving 2,200 pounds of the drug, authorities said.

The DEA investigated the case.

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