LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – The person accused of promoting medication that his girlfriend took from a Nebraska State Patrol probation room has been sentenced.
Senior Choose John M. Gerrard sentenced George Weaver Jr. to 38 years. to 25 years in a federal jail on Wednesday. Weaver Jr. he’ll bear eight years of supervised launch as soon as he’s out.
Weaver Jr. He confronted three prices however pleaded responsible to just one rely. He was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, fentanyl and marijuana.
The plea settlement permits Weaver Jr. to keep away from prices involving numerous overdoses in Lincoln. In response to authorities, 35 overdoses between July 25, 2021 and August 19, 2021, had been traced to Weaver Jr. 9 of those overdoses had been deadly, and one pregnant girl misplaced her child.
Prosecutors mentioned Weaver Jr. and his girlfriend, Anna Idigima, took medication from the NSP proof room after an audit in 2021. The audit revealed greater than $1.2 million value of medication they didn’t account for.
On the time, Idigima had been employed with the Nebraska State Patrol as an proof technician. He had labored with the patrol for 14 years till his firing on August 27, 2021.
In response to a press launch from the US Lawyer's Workplace, video surveillance from NSP Lincoln's proof storage facility reveals Idigima opening sealed bins, taking objects from these bins, putting them in luggage of trash and cargo the baggage into his private car on a number of events between June 16. , 2021 and August 12, 2021.
Greater than ten kilos of fentanyl, value about $300,000, had been stolen from the room. Idigima additionally stole greater than 154 kilos of marijuana, 19.4 kilos of cocaine, 9 kilos of heroin and three kilos of methamphetamine.
Weaver Jr. and Idigima had been arrested on September 21, 2021. Idigima was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in jail on July 19, 2023. Like Weaver Jr., Idigima took a plea deal.
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