Soldier gets 13 months in drug case

[unhappycamper]

Pfc. Elisa Gonzalez stands outside the Yongsan Garrison courtroom Tuesday during a recess in his court appearance on drug charges.


Soldier gets 13 months in drug case
By Jimmy Norris, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Thursday, January 24, 2008

YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea — He said he started distributing drugs to make friends. But to win a lighter sentence for his crimes, he’s willing to testify against those “friends.”

Pfc. Elisa Gonzalez, a mechanic assigned to the 18th Medical Command, was sentenced to 13 months in prison, a bad-conduct discharge, forfeiture of pay and allowances and a demotion to E-1 after pleading guilty to drug-related charges Tuesday at Yongsan Garrison.

Prosecutors sought a two-year prison term, a sentence Gonzalez’s defense lawyer called excessive.

Gonzalez was charged with selling and giving away about 55 grams of marijuana between April and July 2007. He also was charged with possession and use of the drug and attempting to distribute it to two military policemen.

According to prosecutor Capt. Richard Gorini, Gonzalez was caught in a July 12 sting in which he tried to sell investigators 2.8 grams of marijuana. Investigators found another 1.3 grams in his pocket.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=51852

[jimshoes]

1. Just under 2 ounces of pot...

poor kid is screwed. But at least he no longer has to worry about being deployed to a war we were lied into.