Jamaican Drug-Trafficker Coke Given 23-Year Prison Term
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Christopher “Dudus” Coke, a Jamaican convicted of heading an international narcotics-trafficking ring since the early 1990s, was sentenced to 23 years in prison by a federal judge in New York.
Coke pleaded guilty in August to racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to commit assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering. He was arrested by Jamaican authorities and was brought to the U.S. in June 2010. The arrest sparked civil unrest in Coke’s neighborhood, and some residents wrote to the court seeking leniency for him.