Foster Marine gets 3 years in drug case

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Foster Marine gets 3 years in drug case
By Cindy Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, January 13, 2008

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A Marine was sentenced to three years of confinement Friday after pleading guilty to conspiracy and the wrongful use and distribution of Ecstasy and marijuana on Camp Foster.

Lance Cpl. Brandon J. Jones of the 3rd Marine Logistics Group also pleaded guilty to bringing illegal drugs onto a military base and making two false official statements. He was reduced to E-1 and given a dishonorable discharge during the one-day general court-martial at Camp Foster.

In late February, Jones conspired with a Japanese friend off base to sell five capsules of an unidentified substance that Jones believed to be Ecstasy, he testified.

“I was hanging out with her, and she showed me the pills and asked me if I wanted to try them,” said Jones, who has been stationed on Okinawa since 2003 and joined the Marine Corps in September 2002.

He said he paid the woman $100 for five of the pills.


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