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Metter fugitive sentenced
5 years on the run, man pleads guilty to trafficking
USMarshals
METTER - After about five years on the run, an April capture by the U.S. Marshals Service led Julius Pinkston, 61, of Metter to plead guilty to trafficking cocaine last Thursday before Judge B. Avant Edenfield in the United States District Court in Statesboro. Pinkston was the lead defendant in a 35 defendant indictment returned by the federal grand jury in 2006, according to a press release from the office of U.S. Attorney Edward Tarver. The indictment against Pinkston arose out of Operation Snakepit, a major drug investigation conducted under the auspices of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces.
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