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Dan McIntosh Convicted

November 2, 2012
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Yesterday, a federal jury convicted Daniel McIntosh of conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more but less than 1000 kilograms of marijuana. Thus, McIntosh is not facing a mandatory life sentence – which would have been the penalty had the jury found the amount of weed involved to be 1000 kilograms or more. Instead, thanks to McIntosh’s prior weed-dealing convictions, he’s facing a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, with the possibility of life. The jury acquitted McIntosh of all charges related to laundering money at Sonar, the shuttered nightclub he used to co-own, but did convict him of helping the 16-member conspiracy launder money. He scheduled to be sentenced on April 1, and will be jailed until then, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland.

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  • dc

    great lets put another weed dealer in prison

  • Orlando

    I don’t remember this happening in the Wire

  • Homer

    I’m close to the mcintosh family. Not only was he not involved his family is destroyed now because of this.

  • JM

    What about the pilot, Leahy?

  • lustycorpse

    weed never hurt anyone, lets save room for pedophiles in prison…. some people just want to hurt the metal…

  • End the drug war

    What an awful use of tax payer money. A ridiculously long investigation, long trial and now a victimless crime has made victims of his entire family. My hearts go out to them and I hope Karma really gets to all of the awful people who decided to testify against him in order to get out of trouble or to simply shave off sometime on their sentences. Double karma points to the junkie Drew Lloyd mentioned in the earlier City Paper article who not only worked as a government informant but couldn’t even show up to testify sober nodding out. Good job dude you are not only a known junkie now you are a known government informant. At least Dan went to trial and did not try hurting anyone else in the process. His karma and spirit will remain in tact but the rest of these guys will have live with the titles of liars and snitches for the rest of their lives.

  • Van Smith

    The pilot, Keegan Leahy, was also convicted of some charges, acquitted of others. He was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute less than 50 kilograms of pot, and interstate travel to promote crime, and not guilty of money-laundering counts. He faces a maximum five-year sentence, but, without prior convictions, will likely get on the low end of that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/william.bond.10 William Bond

    Well said!

  • Cv

    Don’t do the crime if you cant do the time.. Let this be a lesson, and the only way to rise above this is to stop supporting criminal conspiratorial enterprises, and grow your own if you want to smoke weed.

  • Tapped out

    What about the 10 others who took pleas?

  • faceoff

    whats good with anthony marcontoni?

  • Van Smith

    Of the 16 defendants, four remain fugitives and 10 pleaded guilty before trial. None of them have been sentenced yet. I’ll post another blog soon, summarizing when they’re scheduled to receive sentences.

  • Satyaban

    A nice red wine?

  • suave

    not only is your post ignorant, it’s also pretty damn cold-hearted. I’m no namby-pamby bleeding heart. (In fact, I just read a piece in Reason about a good-for-nothing bastard who was executed by gas (in a southern state), and slammed his head against the bar behind him repeatedly as he croaked, and I could only say “see you in hell, creep” (FYI, he kidnapped, raped, and murdered a 3-yr young girl). They had to clear the witness room, causing another controversy).
    The so-called “war on drugs” is nothing of the sort, and has been repeatedly shown to be a complete failure. The only benefit is to the contractors who build the prisons, and the people who hire on to work there.
    I sincerely hope that someone VERY close to you, doesn’t wind up in prison for a VERY long period of time, for doing something outside of the legal boundaries, with no violence towards anyone. The sickest part is the violence that will be inflicted upon them when they are registered into the system. Yeah, jerk, this could be a best friend, a son, a nephew. The point is it could happen to anyone. Let’s see how glib are then, Cv.

  • JDGHJSAGV

    My heart goes out to the family and friends of all involved. They were getting medicine to people who need it, as 18 states have already passed the MEDICINAL use of the herb. The Fed’s only care about the money and assets that they can collect from people. They have to be able to justify all the wasted time, tax money and effort they put into their 1920′s beliefs. The federal government is out of touch with the change going on in our country, today, and the reality of marijuana. MARIJUANA SHOULD NOT BE A SCHEDULE 1 CRIME!! The problem is, the Fed’s know that marijuana crimes usually involve non-voilent people and so that makes them the best prisoner’s. Good luck to those on the run – lay low for a long time!!

    The snitches will have to live with their EVIL ways.

  • The sad Alternate

    I am so upset by this verdict because I was an alternate but I didn’t have any say in the deliberations. I never believed McIntosh to be guilty of what they charged him of and if he was guilty the DA didn’t show any proof of his guilt. I think I was the only one who did what the judge said and that was not try making up your own story of what happened it’s the DA’s job to prove his guilt and they didn’t. MAN!! I am so pissed at the verdict.

  • The sad Alternate

    @End the drug war. I am right where you are. I knew when I saw Lloyd on that stand nodding and lying that he could never be trusted. The DA had him lie and say he was tired from not getting sleep the night before. that was BS. Then they paid for his hotel room so he could show up the next day and testify some more. I know the difference between a tired person and a person strung out on heroin. I wished I could’ve helped save Dan from the VERDICTS given to him..

  • Model T

    I just hope they send Landsman and his crippled, crooked father to the place where N!ggers get them in the @ss. Nothing would make me happier than seeing that faggot looking pretty boy bum rushed in jail…