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Lee sentenced Joanne Segovia to three years of probation and 100 hours of community service, which falls largely in line with what prosecutors and her defense attorney had requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Segovia is very grateful that Judge Lee saw the case as the U.S. Attorney’s office and I saw the case,” Adam Gasner, Segovia’s attorney, told KQED after the sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008434/former-san-jose-police-union-director-pleads-guilty-to-smuggling-opioids\">plea deal with federal prosecutors\u003c/a> in October, Segovia, 66, confessed to illegally importing tapentadol, a potent painkiller listed as a Schedule II controlled substance. Although such a felony carries a maximum prison term of 20 years, it was widely expected that Segovia would receive a significantly lighter sentence, as her defense team and prosecutors both supported her narrative that she was motivated by an addiction to painkillers rather than by a goal to make a profit as a drug mover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The story of Joanne Segovia is the story of years of heavy opioid addiction, drug importation, self-delusion, and some very poor choices. It is not, however, the story of a drug dealer,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Tartakovsky, the lead prosecutor on the case, wrote in a sentencing memo to the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner noted in a separate court memo that his client was taking prescribed opioids under medical supervision for years due to “excruciating chronic back pain,” but her doctors eventually refused to renew them, at which point she turned to illicit drugs to help her cope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s apologetic for her actions. 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Federal agents were suspicious of Segovia due to the “immense quantities” of pills she was receiving, Tartakovsky wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A ‘good customer’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Investigators said Segovia ordered roughly 18,000 tapentadol pills over a 17-month period in 2021 and 2022, sharing “significant quantities” of pills with two people she knew but also consuming an “extraordinarily large amount” of them herself.[aside label=\"more on the Segovia case\" tag=\"joanne-segovia\"]She was a “good customer” of her supplier, spending between as much as $27,000 on the pills in 2022 alone, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She often coordinated the shipments and payments with her Indian supplier via WhatsApp and “pumped tens of thousands of dollars over the years into the coffers of these unscrupulous networks,” Tartakovsky wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court Tuesday, Tartakovsky noted that there are many people in America illicitly ordering drugs off the internet because of their addictions, and that the federal government doesn’t typically charge “pure users” with crimes. But Segovia went a step further, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She became a sort of auxiliary of this Indian network. She carried water for them,” Tartakovsky said. “She did things for their benefit, like moving pills for them. And this is not some peripheral thing. This is the core of how these schemes work. They rely on Americans to re-ship for them.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was not profiting off these actions, he said, but was instead “spending this massive fraction of her income” and “essentially almost bankrupting herself” to feed her addiction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/san-jose-police-union-executive-charged-attempted-illegal-importation-fentanyl\">arrested in March 2023\u003c/a>, initially on one count of illegally importing a form of fentanyl. Prosecutors, however, later removed the fentanyl charge after admitting that a lab test of the contents of one of the packages sent to her had produced a false positive result. The charge was subsequently changed to the illegal importation of tapentadol.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Expressing remorse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August 2024, Segovia, who had maintained her innocence until that point, indicated to the court she’d be willing to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000464/former-san-jose-police-union-director-expected-to-plead-guilty-to-smuggling-opioids-in-deal-with-feds\"> accept responsibility for her crime\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Dec. 18 personal written statement asking the judge for leniency, Segovia expressed remorse for her actions, saying she “would do anything to take it all back,” and noted that she is heavily involved in the lives of her grandchildren and is a caretaker for her 81-year-old husband, who is ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never realized the magnitude of what I had done until a gun was pointed at me. I have never been in trouble with the law. This was something I had only seen in movies. 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The union denied any involvement or knowledge of her actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the arrest sparked outrage among local elected officials, police critics and activists, prompting protests outside San José City Hall, with demonstrators calling for further investigations and demanding city leaders to stop taking donations from the powerful police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police union hired a private investigator to look into whether Segovia’s actions were connected to her work, releasing the results after her conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator concluded there was “no evidence whatsoever that any POA representative had any involvement, knowledge, or suspicions regarding Segovia’s alleged criminal activities” and that all the facts indicate she acted alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors agreed with that assessment but also criticized the union for interfering in the federal investigation following Segovia’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The SJPOA announced publicly after the search of Segovia’s office that it wished to cooperate with this investigation. Yet counsel for the SJPOA engaged in stonewalling, even threatening to ‘seek judicial intervention’ to stop the prosecution from reviewing Segovia’s SJPOA email contents, though the SJPOA never followed through on its threat,” Tartakovsky wrote in the court memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same week, the union walled off public access to major portions of its website, including pages that list its board members and staff — a change that its leadership said was aimed at protecting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Life upended’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Segovia was a civilian employee for her entire 20-year career with the police union, Tartakovsky wrote that “she held a position that should have instilled her with firmer respect for the law and for her obligation to be truthful with law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though she has since admitted her conduct was wrong and accepted responsibility for it, Tartakovsky noted that she initially lied to federal investigators, attempting to pin everything on her housekeeper, a move he called “reprehensible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was not just the normal blundering dissimulation blurted out when a target is first surprised and confronted by law enforcement,” Tartakovsky wrote. 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Lee spent much of the hearing Tuesday advising Segovia of her legal rights. Lee then asked Segovia how she chose to plead to the count against her, to which Segovia responded with one word: “Guilty.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner has attempted to portray Segovia as someone struggling with a substance use disorder, not a kingpin or drug distributor, who became involved in a drug shipping network as a result of her vulnerability and addiction, saying she was taken advantage of by other bad actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under both the original and current charge, Segovia could face a maximum of 20 years in prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 21, 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Tuesday’s hearing, Gasner suggested that probation, rather than incarceration, would be a suitable punishment for Segovia, who he said is recovering from addiction and deserves compassion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe additional incarceration will reduce the chance that Ms. Segovia would be a recidivist or increase the chance she’d be a recidivist,” he said outside the courthouse. “I believe that her being convicted of this very serious crime and making these admissions and having to be supervised is certainly a punishment for what she has done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From October 2015 to January 2023, Segovia had at least 61 drug shipments mailed to her home from various overseas origins, according to last year’s original criminal complaint against her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the shipping information for the packages claimed they contained innocuous items like “wedding party favors,” “gift makeup,” and “chocolate and sweets,” investigators alleged they contained drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between July 2019 and January 2023, officials intercepted five shipments intended for Segovia, finding thousands of pills, including the synthetic opioids tramadol and tapentadol, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1858px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged women with dyed blond hair exits a courthouse.\" width=\"1858\" height=\"1238\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008475\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED.jpg 1858w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1858px) 100vw, 1858px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanne Segovia, the former executive director of the San José Police Officers’ Association, leaves federal court in San José on Oct. 8, 2024, after pleading guilty to smuggling opioids into the U.S. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In court on Tuesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tartakovsky, the lead prosecutor in the case, revealed as of yet unreported details of the investigation, including that Segovia ordered more than 17,000 tapentadol pills between April 2021 and September 2023 for what he said was her personal use. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators previously said they seized drugs both at her house and her office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations against Segovia, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MattMahanSJ/status/1641311111306940418\">which San José Mayor Matt Mahan at the time called “disturbing,\u003c/a>” sent shockwaves through the South Bay last year, sparking protests outside City Hall amid demands that city leaders stop taking donations from the powerful police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But police union representatives have long denied that any officers or other civilian staffers knew about Segovia’s actions. The union fired her shortly after the allegations surfaced and said the organization was fully cooperating with federal investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also launched an internal investigation looking into possible changes within the organization to beef up oversight and accountability and root out issues like this sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union doesn’t plan to release the findings of that investigation until Segovia’s case is concluded, Tom Saggau, a union spokesperson, told KQED. Shortly after the allegations surfaced last year, the police union insisted it was working to transparently address the concerns around the allegations aimed at Segovia, with Sean Pritchard, its president, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/13/opinion-san-jose-poa-is-transparently-taking-action/\">penning an opinion piece\u003c/a> in The Mercury News about the organization’s efforts to ensure public trust in the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that same week, the union \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-police-officers-association-union-sjpoa-hides-website-pages-after-scandal/\">walled off access to major portions of its website\u003c/a>, including pages that list its board members and staff, which now require a member login to view — a change that Pritchard said was aimed at protecting its members and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Allen, a retired Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department sergeant and board member of Lodge 65 of the California Fraternal Order of Police, said he still questions how Segovia’s criminal actions went undetected in an organization full of police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How this got under their nose, I just don’t believe that’s possible,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police departments, police personnel, law enforcement personnel at all levels tend to try to keep their issues internal,” he added. “And many times, they go without resolution. They simply don’t want the public to know what’s going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Saggau called Allen’s comments “silly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a silly thing for an individual to say that everybody that’s interacted with Ms. Segovia for over 20 years should have known that she was doing whatever it was she was doing,” he said. “By his implication, then if any of his coworkers have crossed the line, he should have known about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Segovia was officially the executive director of the police union, Saggau and some former police union officials described her as more of an “office manager” with a limited scope of responsibilities. Following the allegations, Saggau even referred to her as the “grandma” of the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner, meanwhile, underscored that Segovia’s actions were “separate from her employment” at the police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her private actions should not look negatively upon her employer or the police in any way. They did not participate or engage or assist her in this endeavor,” he said. “And so, therefore, I hope that the trust that the public has in the police in Santa Clara County remains high.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Lee then asked Segovia how she chose to plead to the count against her, to which Segovia responded with one word: “Guilty.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner has attempted to portray Segovia as someone struggling with a substance use disorder, not a kingpin or drug distributor, who became involved in a drug shipping network as a result of her vulnerability and addiction, saying she was taken advantage of by other bad actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under both the original and current charge, Segovia could face a maximum of 20 years in prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 21, 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Tuesday’s hearing, Gasner suggested that probation, rather than incarceration, would be a suitable punishment for Segovia, who he said is recovering from addiction and deserves compassion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe additional incarceration will reduce the chance that Ms. Segovia would be a recidivist or increase the chance she’d be a recidivist,” he said outside the courthouse. “I believe that her being convicted of this very serious crime and making these admissions and having to be supervised is certainly a punishment for what she has done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From October 2015 to January 2023, Segovia had at least 61 drug shipments mailed to her home from various overseas origins, according to last year’s original criminal complaint against her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the shipping information for the packages claimed they contained innocuous items like “wedding party favors,” “gift makeup,” and “chocolate and sweets,” investigators alleged they contained drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between July 2019 and January 2023, officials intercepted five shipments intended for Segovia, finding thousands of pills, including the synthetic opioids tramadol and tapentadol, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1858px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged women with dyed blond hair exits a courthouse.\" width=\"1858\" height=\"1238\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008475\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED.jpg 1858w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1858px) 100vw, 1858px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanne Segovia, the former executive director of the San José Police Officers’ Association, leaves federal court in San José on Oct. 8, 2024, after pleading guilty to smuggling opioids into the U.S. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In court on Tuesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tartakovsky, the lead prosecutor in the case, revealed as of yet unreported details of the investigation, including that Segovia ordered more than 17,000 tapentadol pills between April 2021 and September 2023 for what he said was her personal use. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators previously said they seized drugs both at her house and her office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations against Segovia, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MattMahanSJ/status/1641311111306940418\">which San José Mayor Matt Mahan at the time called “disturbing,\u003c/a>” sent shockwaves through the South Bay last year, sparking protests outside City Hall amid demands that city leaders stop taking donations from the powerful police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But police union representatives have long denied that any officers or other civilian staffers knew about Segovia’s actions. The union fired her shortly after the allegations surfaced and said the organization was fully cooperating with federal investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also launched an internal investigation looking into possible changes within the organization to beef up oversight and accountability and root out issues like this sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union doesn’t plan to release the findings of that investigation until Segovia’s case is concluded, Tom Saggau, a union spokesperson, told KQED. Shortly after the allegations surfaced last year, the police union insisted it was working to transparently address the concerns around the allegations aimed at Segovia, with Sean Pritchard, its president, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/13/opinion-san-jose-poa-is-transparently-taking-action/\">penning an opinion piece\u003c/a> in The Mercury News about the organization’s efforts to ensure public trust in the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that same week, the union \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-police-officers-association-union-sjpoa-hides-website-pages-after-scandal/\">walled off access to major portions of its website\u003c/a>, including pages that list its board members and staff, which now require a member login to view — a change that Pritchard said was aimed at protecting its members and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Allen, a retired Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department sergeant and board member of Lodge 65 of the California Fraternal Order of Police, said he still questions how Segovia’s criminal actions went undetected in an organization full of police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How this got under their nose, I just don’t believe that’s possible,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police departments, police personnel, law enforcement personnel at all levels tend to try to keep their issues internal,” he added. “And many times, they go without resolution. They simply don’t want the public to know what’s going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Saggau called Allen’s comments “silly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a silly thing for an individual to say that everybody that’s interacted with Ms. Segovia for over 20 years should have known that she was doing whatever it was she was doing,” he said. “By his implication, then if any of his coworkers have crossed the line, he should have known about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Segovia was officially the executive director of the police union, Saggau and some former police union officials described her as more of an “office manager” with a limited scope of responsibilities. Following the allegations, Saggau even referred to her as the “grandma” of the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner, meanwhile, underscored that Segovia’s actions were “separate from her employment” at the police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A plea deal is likely in the works for Joanne Segovia, the former longtime executive director of the San José Police Officers’ Association, who was charged last year for allegedly importing opioids in connection with an international drug ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing in U.S. District Court in San José on Thursday in front of a magistrate judge, Segovia pleaded not guilty to one felony charge of illegally importing the opioid tapentadol, a potent painkiller. However, her attorney agreed with federal prosecutors to return to court before a federal district judge on Oct. 8, where Segovia is expected to change her plea to guilty as part of the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia will be “admitting her culpability and facing the consequences,” Adam Gasner, her attorney, said after Thursday’s hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Segovia is going to take responsibility for her actions,” he said. “As a now recovered opioid addict, she understands the wrongfulness of her conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was originally charged in a 2023 criminal complaint with one count of attempting to import a form of fentanyl that was found in a package sent to her from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors, however, have removed that charge and instead brought the current charge of illegally importing tapentadol. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tartakovsky, the lead prosecutor in the case, noted in court on Thursday that the change was due to an “error” in testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The criminal complaint charged unlawful importation of fentanyl and a test had shown fentanyl,” he said. “The government has conducted subsequent testing to determine that there was no fentanyl present in the package that was seized, and the government has concluded that test was in error.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original and amended charge both carry a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gasner said he and Segovia are glad the “truth has finally been revealed” about the government’s testing mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on this case\" postID=\"news_11988510,news_11945256\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case is not a fentanyl case, it’s never been a fentanyl case,” Gasner said. “In our communities, fentanyl is certainly a trigger word and a very serious situation, which caused a lot of people a lot of emotional reactions and often for very good reason. But the reality is, that’s not what this case is about, and that’s not what Ms. Segovia is culpable for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner said he “admired” the U.S. attorney’s office for clarifying that point in court, which was not required but was an “honorable” thing to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia, 65, first came to the attention of U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigators who were looking into an international drug network that was allegedly shipping pills into the Bay Area, officials previously said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2023, Segovia surrendered to federal authorities after being initially charged with attempting to smuggle a form of fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Levenson, a criminal law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said that by indicating she would plead guilty to the new charge, Segovia is signaling “that she’s gone from basically fighting the charges to getting her best deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts interviewed for this story said the length and nature of the sentence Segovia will receive remains an open question and will become clearer when a plea deal is filed ahead of her October court date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sentencing hearing could be set for early 2025, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From October 2015 to January 2023, Segovia had at least 61 drug shipments mailed to her home, coming from various overseas locations, according to last year’s original criminal complaint against her. 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Though Segovia is not a police officer and was an administrative employee for the union representing roughly 1,100 San José police officers, investigators said she claimed at one point to “work for the police department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia is alleged to have continued ordering drugs after being interviewed by federal authorities in February 2023. A package sent from China in March 2023 addressed to her and labeled as containing a “clock” was seized by federal agents in Kentucky. The attorney’s office said the package actually contained valeryl fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys in the case have not commented on what a possible deal might look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where a case involves serious drugs, that involves any kind of distribution, somebody is often looking at prison time,” Jayne said. 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