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Monday, 02 March 2009 19:20 |
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HUGO -- U.S. Attorney Sheldon Sperling advised Thursday that Jeffrey Lynn Pierce, 60, of Hugo was denied bond on numerous federal drug related charges following a detention hearing Thursday in Muskogee. Pierce is being held in the Muskogee County jail. Pierce was arrested without incident Tuesday morning at his residence west of Hugo by a consortium of federal, state and local officers.
According to the recently unsealed federal indictment, Pierce was one of several southeast Oklahoma men who were trafficking in a variety of controlled dangerous drugs. The federal indictment against Pierce alleges that he acquired large quantities of illicit prescription drugs from Jack Henderson (and his pharmacy in Austin, Texas) for the purpose of distributing them to other dealers and users of the drugs without proper prescriptions. Other defendants, also named in the federal indictment (Charles Edward King and Charles Andrew Todd), are accused of acquiring large quantities of methamphetamine and other controlled dangerous drugs and distributed them through, but not limited to Jeffery Pierce & Extended version available by electronic or hardcopy subscription.
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