Man sentenced for running major marijuana-smuggling ring
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Canadian man has been sentenced for being part of a marijuana-smuggling ring that brought thousands of pounds of pot in to the United States through northern New York.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says in Albany says 41-year-old Colin Stewart, of Elgin, Quebec, was sentenced to 11 years and three in prison by a U.S. District Court judge in Syracuse who also ordered five years of post-prison supervised release and a $10,000 fine.
Prosecutors say Stewart was part of a drug ring that smuggled thousands of pounds of marijuana across the border through the Akwesasne (ahg-wuh-SAHZ'-nee) Mohawk Indian Reservation straddling the Quebec-New York border.