MIAMI, FL – NOVEMBER 15: A U.S. Postal Service mailbox stands on November 15, 2012 in Miami, Florida.(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
What to Know
- A New Jersey drug dealer who bribed postal workers to bring him marijuana parcels he had shipped in from California has been sentenced to two years in prison
- Glenn Blackstone, 50, of Newark will also have to serve five years of supervised release once he's freed from prison under the sentence imposed Monday
- He had pleaded guilty in April 2018 to giving bribes and conspiracy to distribute marijuana
A New Jersey drug dealer who bribed postal workers to bring him marijuana parcels he had shipped in from California has been sentenced to two years in prison.
Glenn Blackstone, 50, of Newark will also have to serve five years of supervised release once he's freed from prison under the sentence imposed Monday. He had pleaded guilty in April 2018 to giving bribes and conspiracy to distribute marijuana.
Federal prosecutors have said Blackstone bought marijuana from a conspirator who produced it in California and oversaw its shipping in parcels from California and Nevada. These parcels had fictitious names and addresses on them and were not addressed directly to Blackstone.
Blackstone paid about $12,400 overall in bribes to the letter carriers to have them deliver these parcels to him, prosecutors have said.
