not "Black Entertainment Television" BET...i mean "Big Every Time" BET. Joe Daniels was sentenced to 170 months for shipping meth thru FedEx. What a role model.
I think Joe Daniels is the really chubby guy on the right.
Is the drug dealer/singer the brother of "Davey D" Daniels, the KCCN/Overdrive Live guy?
more arrest to follow....IMO
JIMMYNAKS - more arrest to follow....IMO
nice!
joe daniels is a certified ass
Funny that braddahs so fuggin fat. Must not have been abusing his product, no?
...Maybe for fear of ruining the title..BET.
you know whats messed up is they got fiji on a wiretap a few years ago setting up a meth deal and nothing happened to him, we treat local celebs just like the big ones in the mainland i mean we all love bj, but only p.o. for punching an officer in uniform and running away??? if it were any of us wed still be in jail
piece of shit
On far right = correct
No relation to Davey D who spells his last name with an apostrophe (Daniel's)
JD is talented but made a really fugged up choice.
I lmfao when BET headlined a DARE No Hope in Dope anti-drug rally @ Kapiolani Park. BET were the biggest chronics around and 2nd only to Natural Vibes
That's all????? wasn't it like 50lbs or some-such outrageous amount??
Fed charges right?
fukin scumbags
He could say he was using it to lose weight
batu every-time imo.ha
Drug dealers equals scum.
Weed exempt.
I liked some of their songs. Oh well, have fun in jail.
Musician gets 14 years for meth possession
By Nelson Daranciang
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 24, 2009
A local entertainer who preached anti-drug messages in his music will spend the next 14 years in federal prison for possessing 50 pounds of methamphetamine.
U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor sentenced Joe Daniels to 170 months in prison yesterday for possessing and conspiring to distribute one of the largest quantities of methamphetamine seized in Hawaii history.
Daniels, 34, is known as J.D., half of the local reggae/hip-hop group Big Every Time, or B.E.T.
Friends and relatives wept as Gillmor ordered U.S. marshals to take Daniels into custody. Daniels wailed during the sentencing.
Gillmor sentenced two other men to 185 months in prison each for their roles in the case.
She sentenced Junior Auelua, 44, Thursday and Lauolefiso Afo, 36, Daniels' cousin, yesterday.
Daniels had asked Gillmor for a break in sentencing because he said he received the drugs in two FedEx boxes at his Royal Kunia apartment last February on behalf of Afo. He said he knew there were drugs in the parcels but did not know how much drugs. He said he was not involved in drug distribution.
Daniels said he pleaded guilty to drug possession and conspiracy charges in September because he knew Afo was trafficking drugs, and he allowed him to do so from his apartment. He said he did not profit from Afo's drug dealing except for the rent he charged his cousin for using one of the apartment's bedrooms.
Gillmor said she did not believe Daniels and noted Daniels' hypocrisy for preaching anti-drug messages while trafficking drugs. She said allowing Afo to traffic drugs from his home for fear of offending him makes Daniels a danger to the community.
And she noted the quantity of drugs involved.
"This is a huge crime. This is a huge amount of drugs. We normally see a fraction of that," Gillmor said. "I can't even think of the number of people who will be damaged by that amount of drugs."
Gillmor denied Daniels' request to remain free on bail and turn himself in at a later date so he could arrange a commercial flight to a prison hospital on the mainland.
His lawyer said Daniels suffers from an enlarged heart, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, sleep apnea and obesity. He said a commercial flight will afford Daniels greater access to medical attention.
The government noted that Drug Enforcement Administration agents saw Daniels carry the parcels from his car in the parking lot and up some stairs to his second-floor apartment.
A local entertainer who preached anti-drug messages in his music will spend the next 14 years in federal prison for possessing 50 pounds of methamphetamine.
U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor sentenced Joe Daniels to 170 months in prison yesterday for possessing and conspiring to distribute one of the largest quantities of methamphetamine seized in Hawaii history.
Daniels, 34, is known as J.D., half of the local reggae/hip-hop group Big Every Time, or B.E.T.
Friends and relatives wept as Gillmor ordered U.S. marshals to take Daniels into custody. Daniels wailed during the sentencing.
Gillmor sentenced two other men to 185 months in prison each for their roles in the case.
She sentenced Junior Auelua, 44, Thursday and Lauolefiso Afo, 36, Daniels' cousin, yesterday.
Daniels had asked Gillmor for a break in sentencing because he said he received the drugs in two FedEx boxes at his Royal Kunia apartment last February on behalf of Afo. He said he knew there were drugs in the parcels but did not know how much drugs. He said he was not involved in drug distribution.
Daniels said he pleaded guilty to drug possession and conspiracy charges in September because he knew Afo was trafficking drugs, and he allowed him to do so from his apartment. He said he did not profit from Afo's drug dealing except for the rent he charged his cousin for using one of the apartment's bedrooms.
Gillmor said she did not believe Daniels and noted Daniels' hypocrisy for preaching anti-drug messages while trafficking drugs. She said allowing Afo to traffic drugs from his home for fear of offending him makes Daniels a danger to the community.
And she noted the quantity of drugs involved.
"This is a huge crime. This is a huge amount of drugs. We normally see a fraction of that," Gillmor said. "I can't even think of the number of people who will be damaged by that amount of drugs."
Gillmor denied Daniels' request to remain free on bail and turn himself in at a later date so he could arrange a commercial flight to a prison hospital on the mainland.
His lawyer said Daniels suffers from an enlarged heart, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, sleep apnea and obesity. He said a commercial flight will afford Daniels greater access to medical attention.
The government noted that Drug Enforcement Administration agents saw Daniels carry the parcels from his car in the parking lot and up some stairs to his second-floor apartment.
"Daniels wailed during the sentencing."
I wanna see a video of this. Lik ethe saying goes, "Laugh now, cry later...."
Whew. I got worried there for a second.
I'm still holding out for a second season of Ion Wing.
Ok, what's up with the sentence given in months? Let's break that down to years. The poor guy probably has no idea how long he'll be locked up.
they do it in months Mike, so that they have something to do while inside. Like figure out how many years they gonna be locked up.
Mike Onzuka - Ok, what's up with the sentence given in months? Let's break that down to years. The poor guy probably has no idea how long he'll be locked up.
Mike,
the State of Hawaii has a presentence unit which has minimal guidelines which actually specify probation MUST be a possible sentence for 99 % of all crimes. (thats why at least 95% of all felons get 5 years to 10 years of probation WITH one year of jail).
The federal sentencing guidelines actually start with jail which is done in months then considers probation. They do it in months because everything is considered, age of the defendant, number of crimes ever committed, number of crimes actually convicted of, number of crimes acquitted of, drug/alcohol use, severity of the crime in the U.S. Code (simply the laws like the Hawaii Revised Statutes), etc, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Sentencing_Guidelines
Guidelines basics
The Guidelines determine sentences based primarily on two factors:
the conduct associated with the offense (the offense conduct, which produces the "offense level")
the defendant's criminal history (the "criminal history category")
The Sentencing Table [1] in the Guidelines Manual [2] shows the relationship between these two factors; for each pairing of offense level and criminal history category, the Table specifies a sentencing range, in months, within which the court may sentence a defendant. For example, for a defendant convicted on an offense with a total offense level of 22 and a criminal history category of I, the Guidelines recommend a sentence of 41-51 months, considering the year of the offense to be the same as the year of the guidelines. If, however, a person with an extensive criminal history (Category VI) committed the same offense in the same manner in the same modern timeline and not during the older guideline periods, the Guidelines would recommend a sentence of 84-105 months
You could also look here if you had two years of your life to figure everything out:
http://www.ussc.gov/guidelin.htm
^prob a good thing we have a legal expert on the HG considering our members are so often in violation of the law.
lol