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2nd big shot in Delta ring pleads guilty

Aim is 22-year drug term, dropping of other charges

Leon Bernard Edwards, the No. 2 defendant in a sweeping federal investigation into a drug-trafficking and public-corruption ring centered in Helena-West Helena and Marianna, pleaded guilty Tuesday to the main charge in a lengthy federal indictment in exchange for a recommended 22-year prison sentence.

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  • Headline: 2nd big shot in Delta ring pleads guilty
  • Publication: Front Section, Pages 1 on 04/25/2012
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