US drug ‘mule’ gets 3-year prison sentence on his 90th birthday

US drug ‘mule’ gets 3-year prison sentence on his 90th birthday
Updated 08 May 2014 16:16
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US drug ‘mule’ gets 3-year prison sentence on his 90th birthday

US drug ‘mule’ gets 3-year prison sentence on his 90th birthday

A 90-year-old Indiana man who admitted serving as a cocaine courier for a Mexican drug cartel was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in federal prison. Leo Sharp, a decorated World War II combat veteran who turned 90 on Wednesday, was also sentenced to three years supervised release by Judge Nancy Edmunds in US District Court in Detroit.