Posted at 4:41 p.m., Friday, August 25, 2006
Former resident faces 10 to life for mailing meth
By KEN KOBAYASHI
Advertiser Courts Writer
Charles Lee Ranney Jr., 28, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty Thursday to the charge that carries a prison term of 10 years to life.
Assistant U. S. Attorney Mark Inciong said Ranney was a major supplier of ice to Hawai'i.
Ranney's lawyer Earle Partington said his client pleaded guilty in hopes of avoiding a life term.
Under the agreement, Ranney will cooperate with federal authorities.
Ranney was indicted by a federal grand jury in Honolulu after authorities seized about 35 pounds of ice from a Waipahu home in September last year. The ice seizure was the largest here since the 1980s.
Ranney admitted that the ice was from him.
He is scheduled to be sentenced March 1.
