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Drug dealer sentenced to life to be released

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Thursday, January 8. 2009
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A Barnesville man sentenced to life in prison following a crackdown on cocaine dealers here in the early 1990s is set to be released on parole January 14.

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#1 lizzybegood on 01/08/09 at 09:22 PM
Nice! I'd rather have a drug dealer than a child molester/drunk driver prowling the streets of B'ville anytime.

I'm sure that he's paid his debt to society unlike others that shall remain nameless....
#2 anonymous on 01/09/09 at 08:53 AM
Don't understand how a housing grant works? Does that mean after serving time the govt. gives the freed inmates cheap housing? If that's the case ,crime does pay.
#3 anonyous on 01/09/09 at 03:49 PM
they let anybody be sheriff might as well let drug dealers out
#4 anonymous on 01/09/09 at 07:14 PM
Surely we have not come to the point of choosing one type of offender over another. We will hope that Abreu will get what he deserves when he goes before a jury. Either way, it doesn't make me want a big-time drug dealer back in our county.
#5 anonymous on 01/12/09 at 10:33 AM
To #3 anonymous. THEY did not let anyone be sheriff -- He was ELECTED by the citizens of Lamar County. So if you want drug dealers out on the streets -- call your lawmakers!!!!!
#6 Anonymous on 01/15/09 at 08:08 AM
This is the reason we will never win the "war on drugs". As soon as the police put one drug dealer in jail some judge is letting another out.
#7 anonymous on 01/15/09 at 11:01 AM
it dont matter who the police is if the man did his time let him out cause he is human and if the people dont wanna live by him then they should move or just live with it
#8 Anonymous on 01/19/09 at 09:50 AM
He will just start back selling drugs as soon as he gets out. I say leave him in jail.
#9 Queen " B " on 01/19/09 at 10:42 PM
Get a "LIFE" Its alot more Importatnt things to worry about than worrying a man who has served his time more than 10 years. What you need to worry about are These Big Timers Putting the crack back out on the streets after they've taken it from the dealers and reselling the crack.
#10 Anonymous on 01/20/09 at 05:45 AM
No, we need to worrry about drug dealers at all levels. This man should stay behind bars.
#11 Anonymous on 01/20/09 at 05:25 PM
LEAVE THIS HABITUAL VIOLATOR IN JAIL!!! According to the article, he had FOUR previous convictions. As far as I'm concerned he had several chances and never learned. What will make this time any different? As soon as he is back on the street he will go right back to his old ways. He is a burden on society and I for one dont see the need in letting him out and then spending MORE money to convict him again ( when he gets caught selling dope again).
#12 Louie on 01/22/09 at 09:06 AM
Give the guy a break...ten years in the slammer can change anybody's mind. I would like to see some of those bankers who out emptied out my 401A do some major time.
#13 Anonymous on 01/22/09 at 03:50 PM
YOu sound like you've been doing the drugs! Very ignorant comment!
#14 Anonymous on 01/25/09 at 05:44 AM
He will be back in jail before his probation is over.
#15 wow... on 01/26/09 at 10:04 PM
wow another productive citizen in this town coming back home.... gah what's this place coming to...
#16 J on 01/27/09 at 06:32 AM
The outrage in this story to me is the fact that a human being can be locked away in a cage for life for a NON-VIOLENT crime.

There are murderers and molesters that walk away with less time served.
#17 Smith on 01/28/09 at 02:22 PM
OMG... There are a lot of heartless people in Barnesville who don't understand that people can change. This man has been locked up for ten years. Can he at least get a chance to get out and prove that either the time did him some good or not? There are child molestors, rapists and murderers who have done less time than this man. At least the people who purchased the drugs had the choice of saying NO!!!! to drugs. The children being molested, the people being raped and those who are murdered don't have a choice, it was in the hands of those who were doing it to them. This man just dealt the drugs, it is the drug users who need to step up and say no and deal with their addictions. This way the drug dealers will become obsolete. No demand....no need for supply.
#18 Paul's First Cousin on 01/28/09 at 02:43 PM
Every day God gives us a new hand to play.
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