Man, 79, 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d in マリファナ 破産した/(警察が)手入れする challenges search

BOSTON (AP) ― When police in Junction City, Kansas, stopped a (警官の)巡回区域,受持ち区域-up 好転 トラックで運ぶ for スピード違反 in June 2013, the driver got a lot more than a 交通違反のカード: The stop led 当局 to Massachusetts and Arizona, where they said they 設立する about $15 million in cash, almost 400 続けざまに猛撃するs of マリファナ and ledgers 詳細(に述べる)ing 麻薬 取引,協定s going 支援する to 1992.

The driver, Marshall Dion, told police he was a retiree from Tucson who was living off his $690-per-month Social 安全 check. He also said he had left his 麻薬-取引,協定ing days behind, but 連邦の 当局 say he was still going strong at age 78 as a 重要な player in a large マリファナ 操作/手術. In his トラックで運ぶ, police 設立する $828,220 in cash.

Now, Dion's lawyer is arguing that the police stop and search of his トラックで運ぶ were 違法な, and everything 設立する as a result cannot be used against him. His lawyer, Henry Brennan, 計画(する)s to argue in Boston 連邦の 法廷,裁判所 on Tuesday that the 証拠 should be thrown out.

This June 2013 booking photo provided by the Junction City, Kan., Police Department shows Marshall Dion, 78, of Tucson, Ariz., arrested and charged with spee...

This June 2013 調書をとる/予約するing photo 供給するd by the Junction City, Kan., Police Department shows Marshall Dion, 78, of Tucson, Ariz., 逮捕(する)d and 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d with スピード違反 and 輸送(する)ing proceeds from 違法な 麻薬 sales. Police 掴むd $828,220 in his 好転 トラックで運ぶ, but Dion?s trouble with the 法律 dates 支援する 10年間s. The stop led 当局 to 貯蔵 部隊s in Massachusetts and Arizona where they 設立する nearly $15 million in cash, more than 1,000 キロs of マリファナ and ledgers 恐らく 詳細(に述べる)ing 麻薬 取引,協定s going 支援する to 1992. (AP Photo/Junction City Police Department)

Much of Dion's life is a mystery. Public 記録,記録的な/記録するs show he has lived in Boston; Portland, Maine; Grand Junction, Colorado; and Tucson, Arizona. He told police who stopped him in Kansas that he was 長,率いるd home to Tucson from Pennsylvania, where he had met with his accountant.

Dion, now 79, appeared to live frugally, にもかかわらず the millions 当局 設立する and two homes he owned in Arizona. When he was stopped in Kansas, he was 運動ing a 2002 GMC Sierra with an old refrigerator and other junk in the トラックで運ぶ bed.

His 合法的な troubles date 支援する 10年間s.

In 1985, Dion 衝突,墜落d a 選び出す/独身-engine 計画(する) he was 操縦するing in Kenosha 郡, Wisconsin, and Dion broke both his ankles. When 郡保安官's 副s arrived, he was はうing along a muddy field as 法案s floated in the 空気/公表する, said Cathy Baxter, then a 副 郡保安官.

"This guy didn't even 収容する/認める there was any money on the 計画(する). He said, 'That's not my money. I don 't know where that money (機の)カム from,'" Baxter said.

The 政府 was 許すd to keep nearly $112,000 回復するd from the 衝突,墜落 scene after a 裁判官 設立する it was likely 麻薬 proceeds. Dion was not 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d 有罪に.

In 1989, after Boston police 設立する more than 100 続けざまに猛撃するs of マリファナ in his car, Dion was 罪人/有罪を宣告するd of trafficking 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s.

John Coffey, who 起訴するd Dion in that 事例/患者, said Dion wore a 控訴 and bowtie and looked like a college professor. Conrad Beltzer Jr., Dion's 弁護士/代理人/検事 in the 事例/患者, said: "He wasn't a flashy guy at all. He didn't appear to have money."

When Dion was stopped for スピード違反 on Interstate 70 in Kansas, he 恐らく told the officer he could look in his トラックで運ぶ. "I am telling you I am clean. I've been out of the 商売/仕事. That was 23 years ago," he said, によれば a 法廷,裁判所 とじ込み/提出するing by 検察官,検事s.

Police used a GPS 装置 inside Dion's トラックで運ぶ to re-trace his movements to a self-貯蔵 施設 in North Reading, Massachusetts, where they said they 設立する $11.5 million cash, more than 168 続けざまに猛撃するs of マリファナ and 記録,記録的な/記録するs of 顧客s, 量s of マリファナ sold and cash balances.

Dion's 記録,記録的な/記録するs showed he "had been trafficking in large 量s of マリファナ since at least 1992," 検察官,検事s said in a 法廷,裁判所 とじ込み/提出するing.

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