{"id":7888,"date":"2011-06-23T15:34:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T19:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7888"},"modified":"2011-06-23T15:34:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T19:34:16","slug":"reggae-star-sentenced-to-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7888","title":{"rendered":"Reggae Star Sentenced To 10 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, <strong>Judge James Moody<\/strong> announced the sentencing of Grammy-winning reggae singer <strong>Buju Banton<\/strong>. <strong>Banton<\/strong> (real name <strong>Mark Myrie<\/strong>) was found guilty in February of conspiring to set up a cocaine deal in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors and <strong>Banton\u2019s<\/strong> attorney presented testimony during the sentencing phase.<\/p>\n<p>A jury deliberated for 11 hours before finding <strong>Banton<\/strong> guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, possession of a firearm in futherance of a drug trafficking offense, and using a telephone to facilitate a drug trafficking offense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judge Moody<\/strong> sentenced <strong>Banton<\/strong> to 10 years in a federal prison on the charges.<\/p>\n<p>When he was convicted, <strong>Banton<\/strong> appealed for a reduced sentence and despite the support he received from celebrities and entertainers, <strong>Judge Moody<\/strong> still handed down a 10-year sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Judge James Moody announced the sentencing of Grammy-winning reggae singer Buju Banton. Banton (real name Mark Myrie) was found guilty in February of conspiring to set up a cocaine deal in 2009. Prosecutors and Banton\u2019s attorney presented testimony during the sentencing phase. A jury deliberated for 11 hours before finding Banton guilty of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}