JACKSONVILLE -- Most of the active-duty military service members from Camp Lejeune arrested in a two-year drug sweep that ended in June have already been sentenced, Marine Corps officials said Wednesday. Of the 84 military personnel arrested in Operation Xterminator, one of the largest military drug operations ever, all but two have been charged and sentenced with either possessing or distributing illegal drugs, military officials said Wednesday during a press conference at Camp Lejeune. They received sentences from 3 to 19 years and dishonorable discharges, said Camp Lejeune spokesman Maj. Steve Cox. Three arrested were sailors. The rest were Marines. [continues 652 words]
FORT PIERCE - A Fort Pierce man shot by a federal agent died Tuesday afternoon. Keith Daughtry, 19, of the 300 block of South 14th Street, was shot in the 300 block of North 12th Street on Sunday night during a fight with an undercover Drug Enforcement Agency agent. According to DEA officials, the agents were attempting to buy crack cocaine from a group of men standing along the street. One of the agents was handed what was supposed to be crack and told one of the men that the crack "looked like wax," Special Agent Brent Eaton said. The group of men started to punch the agents through the open car windows, Eaton said. [continues 209 words]
