Hello everyone,
Evelyn here,
with latest news release from the office our Attorney General, Charlie Crist. In this latest release a man, Michael Joel Lassiter of Volusia County pleaded guilty for trafficking in Methylenedioxymethamphetamine. It is better known to you and me by its street name, Ecstasy. Lassiter with others ran a drug lab that supplied Ecstasy to such counties as Leon, Flagler, and Volusia. If he is found guilty on all the charges against him, Lassiter can be sentenced up to 30 years in prison. For more detail read the release below.
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Charlie Crist
Attorney General
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News Release Date of release: June 20, 2006 |
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Volusia County Man Pleads Guilty to Running Drug Lab
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TALLAHASSEE - Attorney General Charlie Crist today announced that a Volusia County man pled guilty for his role in an Ecstasy trafficking ring. Michael Joel Lassiter, of Daytona Beach, faces up to 30 years in prison for his role in the drug ring, which manufactured and distributed the drug throughout three Florida counties.
Lassiter, 51, was arrested in 2005 after investigators with a tri-county drug task force discovered evidence that Lassiter and four accomplices were running an Ecstasy lab that distributed the drug through Leon, Flagler and Volusia counties. More than 850 pills of the drug worth approximately $17,000 were seized when the defendants were arrested. The lab was the third Ecstasy lab in Florida to be shut down. Lassiter and his cohorts were prosecuted by Crist’s Office of Statewide Prosecution.
"As with any illegal drug, there is an agony to go along with this kind of abuse," said Crist. "We remaincommitted to removing these drugs from the street and keeping them away from our young people."
Lassiter pled guilty to trafficking in more than 10 grams of Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (Ecstacy), a first-degree felony. He will be sentenced at a later date by Circuit Court Judge Kim Hammond. Two of Lassiter’s co-defendants have already been sentenced. A third is awaiting sentencing and a fourth, Lassiter's daughter, is a fugitive.
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Evelyn out.
