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Ex-Buckeye Sentenced For Drug Charges

POSTED: 6:05 pm EDT August 14, 2006
UPDATED: 6:09 pm EDT August 14, 2006
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A former Ohio State football player was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday.Marco Cooper, 24, was convicted of drug charges and tampering with evidence, NBC 4 reported.Investigators said Cooper had cocaine and heroin when he was arrested in March. Cooper was also ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.
 
MarionStar.com

8/16/06

Former Buckeye player sentenced to 3 years
Cooper caught in Marion with cocaine, heroin

By KURT MOORE
The Marion Star




MARION - Former Ohio State Buckeyes linebacker Marco Cooper will serve three years in prison on drug charges, according to the Marion County Prosecutor's Office.
Cooper, one of three suspects arrested in March after the Marion Metro Drug Enforcement Unit witnessed an alleged drug transaction in the city's west side, appeared before Marion County Common Pleas Judge William Finnegan on Monday.

The judge sentenced Cooper to serve a mandatory three-year term on cocaine possession as well as a year on a tampering with evidence charge and three years for possession of heroin, according to Marion County Assistant Prosecutor Rhonda Burggraf. Finnegan said Cooper will be able to serve all three sentences concurrently, or at the same time. Finnegan also fined Cooper $5,000 on each drug charge and suspended his driver's license for six months.


Marion Police officers arrested Columbus residents Cooper, 24, and Leonard McGraw, 28, and Marion resident Quinton Miller, 31, on March 6. According to MARMET, city police stopped their car at Waterloo and Bennett streets after the suspects were seen at what police said was a suspected drug house.

The Buckeyes had suspended Cooper from the team in 2002 after he was arrested on April 27, 2002, on felony charges of drug abuse and carrying a concealed weapon. According to the Associated Press, he had been accused of having a 9 mm handgun, ammunition and Ecstasy pills hidden in his sport utility vehicle.

He had pleaded guilty in 2002 and was placed on probation.
Reporter Kurt Moore: 740-375-5151 or [email protected]
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Appellate court overturns drug conviction of former Buckeye
By BEVIN PEPPARD
The Marion Star

LIMA - A former Ohio State Buckeyes linebacker will likely be released from prison soon after an appellate court overturned his drug conviction. A decision released Monday from the Third District Court of Appeals reversed the convictions of Marco J. Cooper for possession of cocaine and possession of heroin, citing that the prosecution failed to prove he had "constructive possession" over the drugs.

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citing that the prosecution failed to prove he had "constructive possession" over the drugs.
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Wow. Our justice system sure does have some quirks and kinks in it.

What would the opposite of constructive be in this instance? Destructive? Instructive? Whatthefuctive?

I feel sorry for Marco...he missed out on an NC, a great education and a chance to be set financially in the NFL. Now he is a pathetic loser who resorts to recreational drug use to pass the time.
 
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