Stay-at-home soccer dad sentenced as drug kingpin

BY Bob Larson  on October 19, 2012 @ 4:23 pm (Updated: 9:39 am - 10/20/12 )

A stay-at-home soccer dad from Kirkland will spend 15 years behind bars for his role in a huge drug ring.

Jacob Stuart, 39, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to time in jail and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Prosecutors say Stuart and others smuggled marijuana into the U.S. from Canada, and distributed as much as a ton of pot each month to other states from an airport in Puyallup.

Money made from the group's marijuana deals would be used to buy cocaine from Southern California, which they would resell in Canada at a huge mark up.

"This defendant tried to hide his international drug dealing while posing as a stay-at-home soccer dad," said U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. "His lust for drug money disregarded the harm he spread throughout communities in the U.S. and Canada, and enriched a violent criminal gang."

Durkan says two dozen people in the U.S. and Canada have been charged in the case. Five have already been sentenced to lengthy prison terms. The smuggling organization had ties to members of the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang in British Columbia, Canada.

Bob Larson, KIRO Radio Anchor
Bob Larson is a news editor at KIRO Radio. Bob grew up in beautiful Walla Walla and graduated from Oregon State University.
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  • RnD_Fan wrote...
    is this a sentence?
    October 19, 2012 6:33 pm
    "Jacob Stuart, 39, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to commit money laundering. "
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  • El Duderino wrote...
    Journalism at its best
    October 19, 2012 9:59 pm
    Maybe five years of supervised education would produce better results. Chasing fire trucks and poaching stories from other sites = modern journalism.

    In other news, now I know why the Hangar Inn in Puyallup has such large portions. All those dudes running ganja like a scene from Super Troopers, they must be sampling the product...

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  • Ted Bundi wrote...
    So if they take the profit out of pot... legalize it
    October 20, 2012 7:36 am
    "...Money made from the group's marijuana deals would be used to buy cocaine..." No money to buy the cocaine?
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  • CH wrote...
    maybe if the republican dad went to work . . . .
    October 20, 2012 4:59 pm
    ????
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