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| Billings Gazette |
| Richard Flor, 68 died Wednesday night after having two heart attacks while being transported to federal prison to serve a five-year sentence for medical marijuana |
A former
medical marijuana provider in Montana died in federal custody while
being transported to federal prison Wednesday night. Richard Flor, 68,
was being sent from a private prison to a federal prison when he had two
heart attacks and passed away, Toke of the Town has learned.
Flor,
of Miles City, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison
on April 19. He had asked for leniency because he suffered from
numerous physical and mental ailments.
Flor,
his wife, Sherry, 55, and their son Justin, 35, all pleaded guilty to
drug charges related to a medical marijuana operation run out of their
home.
He co-owned Montana Cannabis, targeted in last year's Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) raids across Montana as part of the
Obama Administration's crackdown on medical marijuana. Federal agents
searched more than two dozen Montana medical marijuana businesses,
warehouses and residences in the wave of raids.
According
to the federal indictment, the three Flors were accused of conspiring
with unnamed coconspirators to grow more than 220 pounds of cannabis in
Helena, Miles City, and Three Forks, and to distribute the marijuana in
Billings, Helena, Miles City and Missoula.
Federal
agents claimed the Flors got at least $1.7 million in cash proceeds
from activity from January 2007 to March 15, 2011, according to the
indictment. The three were accused of laundering some of the money
through bank accounts to continue the operation.
The
Flors were also charged with having 28 firearms, including various
pistols, rifles, and semiautomatic and assault-style guns, according to
the indictment.
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| R.I.P. Richard Flor. |
