
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, February 23, 1991                   TAG: 9102230344
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: BEDFORD/FRANKLIN 
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CRACK DEALER GETS 40 YEARS IN PRISON

A Bedford County Circuit Court judge Friday imposed the 40-year prison sentence a jury had recommended for a crack cocaine dealer.

In December, a jury gave Clifford Richards the maximum punishment possible for one felony count of distributing cocaine: 40 years and a $100,000 fine.

Richards, a 25-year-old native of New Jersey, was one of 22 people arrested last year in an undercover operation that focused on drug traffic in Rain Tree Village, a Bedford apartment complex.

Richards was one of the three suspects who asked for jury trials.

- Staff report

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