Official resigns after guilty plea to drug conspiracy in Mississippi and North Carolina vape shops
Time:2024-05-20 05:54:45 Source:healthViews(143)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — A city council member in south Mississippi is leaving office after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge related to running a business that sold illegal drugs in his home state and North Carolina.
Robert Leon Deming, III, announced his resignation from the Biloxi City Council on Tuesday, according to local news outlets. He was in his third term.
Federal prosecutors announced last week that Deming reached a plea agreement. They said he sold over $2 million worth of CBD and vape products containing controlled substances. The Drug Enforcement Administration received complaints that some of the products made customers ill.
In 2020, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and the Drug Enforcement Administration began investigating Deming’s business, the Candy Shop.
As part of his plea agreement, Deming agreed to forfeit more than $1.9 million and a yellow monster truck. His sentencing is set for August.
Deming ran for a U.S. House seat in south Mississippi in 2020, losing in the Republican primary.
You may also like
- Loose Women star Kaye Adams reveals she was groped by her boss in front of her laughing co
- VOX POPULI: China remains same heartless nation as seen in grim 1984 film
- 'Barbie' makes history with $1 billion at the box office
- HKFP Lens: Hong Kong photographers document their last moments in the city
- The German chancellor tours flooded regions in the southwest in a show of solidarity
- China is drilling some of the deepest holes in hunt for natural resources
- SWAT team pulls suspect out of car after standoff in grocery store parking lot
- Russia election: Arrests for vandalism as ballot boxes targeted in Putin vote
- China's top diplomat holds talks with Brunei's second minister of foreign affairs