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May 12, 2010 in City
Cocaine smuggler gets 10 year term
The last of two drug smugglers arrested in Utah with cocaine bound for a young helicopter pilot in the Colville National Forest has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
Ross N. Legge, 54, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine last week in U.S. District Court in Utah and was sentenced to 120 months in prison, followed by 60 months probation, according to documents filed on Friday.
Legge and Leonard J. Ferris were arrested Feb. 21, 2009, near Ogden, Utah, after state troopers found 83 kilograms of cocaine in their pickup. The bust was part of the ongoing Operation Blade Runner drug investigation.
Ferris was sentenced in December to six years in prison in a hearing that was closed to the public.
The men had a storage unit in Spokane Valley where they kept an ATV, trailer, and other items used in drug trafficking. They were driving from Las Vegas to Eastern Washington to trade the cocaine to Canadian Samuel Jackson Lindsay-Brown when they were arrested.
Lindsay-Brown was arrested with 400 pounds of marijuana after federal agents infiltrated the operation following Legge and Ferris’ arrests. He committed suicide in Spokane County Jail on Feb. 27, 2009, at age 24. His story drew international attention and is set to be made into a movie by actor and director Jason Priestley.
Ferris pleaded guilty about two months after his arrest, but Legge fought the charge. His May 5 guilty plea came after a federal judge rejected a motion to suppress evidence obtained through the search of the truck.
Authorities have described Legge and Ferris’ stop as a routine traffic stop, but the motion shows the men were stopped by a state trooper who had already pulled over another vehicle for speeding.
The trooper said he stopped the black Ford F-150 truck Legge and Ferris were in because it didn’t move to the left lane when they passed the trooper, who was stopped alongside the highway’s right lane.
Legge said he lived in Spokane, and he and Ferris gave conflicting stories about why they had traveled to Las Vegas, according to court documents.
Human trafficking suspects released 
kennyhuston on May 12 at 10:51 a.m.
This will be an interesting movie and I look forward to seeing how they will explain Sam’s “suicide”. I personally spoke with Sam’s father after meeting him in a downtown bar. He swore his son WOULD NEVER, EVER take his own life and eluded that the SPD was really responsible for his son’s death. In light of all of the recent OTTO revelations, i.e. the SPD’s way of twisting the truth, this should be REALLY interesting!