Hello Everyone
Evelyn Here,
I have the final update on the case of the Volusia man who was charged and sentenced with operating a meth lab that supplies the illegal drug Ecstasy to the Tri-counties area of Volusia, Leon, and Flagler.
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Charlie Crist
Attorney General
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News Release |
Date of release: July 26, 2006
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Volusia Man Gets 20 Years for Ecstasy Drug Ring |
TALLAHASSEE - Attorney General Charlie Crist today announced that a Volusia County man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty for his role in an Ecstasy trafficking ring. Michael Joel Lassiter, of Daytona Beach, was also ordered to pay a $50,000 fine for his role in the drug ring, which manufactured and distributed the drug in Leon, Flagler and Volusia counties.
Lassiter, 51, was arrested last year after investigators with a tri-county drug task force discovered evidence that he and four accomplices were running an Ecstasy lab. Facing prosecution by Crist’s Office of Statewide Prosecution, Lassiter instead chose to enter a guilty plea last month.
"Drugs like Ecstasy bring misery and harm wherever they go,” said Crist. “We will do all we can to stop those who manufacture and sell this poison in our communities.”
At the time Lassiter and his associates were arrested, authorities seized more than 850 Ecstasy pills, worth approximately $17,000. The lab was the third Ecstasy lab in Florida to be shut down. In June, Lassiter pled guilty to trafficking in more than 10 grams of Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (Ecstasy), a first-degree felony. Two of Lassiter’s co-defendants have already been sentenced, and a third is awaiting sentencing. The fourth co-defendant, Lassiter's daughter, is a fugitive.
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Evelyn out.
