How This Navy Commander Became a Gun-Toting Meth Dealer
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By Carl Prine | January 27, 2022
The Navy officer who commanded minesweepers before he became a gun-toting meth dealer in Texas will spend the next 19 years behind bars.
On Thursday, Jan. 27, US Senior Judge Janis Graham Jack in Corpus Christi also ordered Lance Esswein, 58, to receive mandatory drug and mental health treatment and to spend five years on supervised release when he exits prison.
Her sentencing came nearly two years after Esswein inked a plea deal with federal prosecutors and admitted to being an armed drug trafficker operating out of Portland, Texas. It partly hinged on a report revealing that Esswein had also offered to arrange the murder of two police officers to prevent them from testifying in an unrelated narcotics probe.
Esswein’s attorney didn’t respond to messages from Coffee or Die Magazine seeking comment.
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