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Post by 50yardfan on Feb 3, 2011 11:22:46 GMT -5
Ex-Outlaws player sentenced to probation in cocaine casebillingsgazette.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_3923776a-c695-5069-a9a3-04a3fbf14f73.html?oCampaign=hottopicsA former Billings Outlaws football player who admitted driving another team member to cocaine deals will spend two years on federal probation.
Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull on Wednesday sentenced Nolan Arthur Fisher, 26, to supervised release, calling Fisher's role minor and saying he was "genuinely remorseful." Fisher didn't receive any money and had no control over the drugs, he said.
Fisher apologized, accepted responsibility and said he would work to make the right choices.
Fisher pleaded guilty in October to one count of possession of cocaine for distribution. Two other counts were dismissed at sentencing.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Seykora said Fisher and convicted ex-Outlaws player Robert Earl Reed were roommates at the Outlaws Inn, where players stayed.
Beginning in the fall of 2008, Fisher drove Reed to three drug deals in which an undercover detective bought cocaine from Reed, Seykora said. Fisher also let the detective into their apartment, where the detective bought cocaine from Reed.
Reed was sentenced to 26 months in prison.
The Outlaws, an indoor professional team that folded in October, had suspended Fisher after he was indicted in June.
Fisher is one of seven ex-Outlaws players to be convicted in a cocaine conspiracy that brought almost 40 pounds of the drug to the Billings community from Salt Lake City. The case has led to convictions of others as well.
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