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Convicted Drug Smuggler Sentenced To 99 Years

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Updated: January 7, 2009
A Harrison County Jury sentenced a convicted drug smuggler to 99 years behind bars. The trial concluded wednesday for 24-year-old Derrick Irons of Corinth, Mississippi. Irons received the maximum sentence for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Irons was a passenger in a car traveling through Marshall in March of 2005, when they were pulled over for a routine traffic stop. Inside, authorities found nearly 500 grams of powder and crack cocaine and a pound of marijuana.

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