Drug use lands airman 14 months in prison

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Drug use lands airman 14 months in prison
By David Allen, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, October 17, 2008

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — An airman who smuggled a bag of Ecstasy tablets into Japan was sentenced Wednesday to more than 14 months in prison, concluding a case that his commander said had hurt the morale and efficiency of the entire 300-member unit.

Airman Brandon R. Grundy of the 18th Munitions Squadron was the catalyst in a situation where nine other airmen were removed from their ammunition-handling jobs because they participated in his drug-fueled parties, unit commander Lt. Col. Kathy Goforth said.

Grundy, 21, pleaded guilty to using and distributing Ecstasy on Kadena Air Base between March and June 2007. He said he bought the pills when he went home to Tucson, Ariz., to participate in the Air Force’s recruiter assistant program, and carried them into Japan in a plastic bag taped to his thigh.

He said he shared at least 80 pills with friends and co-workers on at least four occasions.

During Memorial Day weekend last year he turned his room into a "rave party," providing black lights, glow sticks, body paint and techno music to enhance the Ecstasy high for six of his friends, Grundy testified.


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