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Henderson takes plea agreement
By Bill Hankins
The Paris News
Published September 2, 2009
A former Lamar County pharmacist has made a plea agreement in federal court in Muskogee, Okla. to conspiracy to possess drugs with intent to distribute and distribution of a controlled substance.
Pharmacist Jack Henderson, now of Elgin, Tex., joined Billy Joe Green, 34, of Idabel, Okla. and Charles Edward King, 32, also of Idabel, in accepting a plea bargain in exchange for guilty pleas in what federal officials have described as a multi-state drug conspiracy.
The three appeared in federal court Aug. 24, to announce their agreement to the plea bargain.
Two others, Martin Young, 38, of Wright City and Jeffrey Pierce of Hugo, already had made plea bargains, leaving the only remaining defendant in the case, Charles Andrew Todd, 35, of Millerton, to stand trial.
The guilty pleas indicated federal officials may have others in mind in the continuing investigation of the conspiracy.
A date for sentencing or the plea deal arrangements was not announced by the court.
Henderson was a pharmacist in Paris before moving to Austin.
Records show he was never arrested in Lamar County.
He owned a ranch near Paris while here.
Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics officials said the men who pleaded guilty in the case are “mid-level drug dealers,” and that the investigation is continuing, perhaps aimed at people who were at a higher level in the conspiracy.
Telephone records of the defendants are being studied in the investigation.
Each of the men who pleaded guilty could face 10 years to life in prison and fines of up to $4 million.
Henderson had no prior criminal record and sentencing could be eight to 14 months on his guilty plea.
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