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Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton at Hip-Hop Music Awards in Miami Source in 2003.Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton, a Grammy Award in the previous week, was sentenced on Tuesday an agreement to mediate cocaine with a drug undercover informant.
A jury in Tampa, Florida, the federal government of conspiracy to distribute Banton guilty hours after cocaine weighing 11 over two days.
Banton was born Mark Myrie reached the peak of his singing career on February 13, when his album "Before the Dawn" was the Grammy for Best Reggae Album. But in an instant, her life apparently made when he incurs a penalty of up to life imprisonment at the bottom.
Prosecutors said Banton had been the intermediary in a transaction between cocaine dealer Tampa and confidentiality of the informant of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The accusation comes from a drug sting in December 2009 AED.
Banton, 37, was on audio and video taken undercover boast about the drug deal "without risk" and palpation of the illicit white powder.
"It's not like Buju Banton, a reggae singer. Is Mark Myrie, the defendant to drugs," Assistant U.S. Attorney James Preston said during his speech last Thursday.
Banton's lawyer, David Markus, countered that the singer is not much profit from drug trafficking.
He said Banton in the DEA probe was captured because he was "a great orator, and tried to understand the informant - who ended with a $ 50,000 commission after bankruptcy.
"He tried to act cool," said Markus.
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