Pubdate: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 Source: Los Angeles Times (CA) Section: In Brief / Tennessee Contact: http://www.latimes.com/ Feedback: http://www.latimes.com/services/site/la-contactus.htmlstory Forum: http://www.latimes.com/services/site/la-discuss.htmlstory Address: 202 W. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 Fax: (213) 237-7679 Copyright: 2006 Los Angeles Times 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. - --- MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman