Pubdate: Sat, 17 Jun 2006
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Section: In Brief / Tennessee
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MAN SENTENCED FOR SELLING IODINE FOR METH

A garden center owner was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for 
selling iodine used to make methamphetamine in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama.

Joseph Swafford, 62, also must forfeit his business, Broadway Home 
and Garden Center, to the government. He declined to comment at his 
sentencing in Chattanooga.

A jury in March convicted Swafford and his business of conspiring to 
aid illegal drug-making by selling iodine to customers who used it to 
make methamphetamine. He was not accused of making the drug.
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