Along with the $1 bills, investigators found numerous firearms, $1.6 million in cash and seven kilograms (or about 15 and a half pounds) of cocaine at the shared Cerritos residence, prosecutors said.
Turner’s lawyer said he had been mischaracterized by media outlets as a drug kingpin.
“In fact, Mr. Turner was not the lead person in this case,” Dan Chambers, Turner’s attorney, said in court. “The large amount of cash that was found, was not found at Mr. Turner’s house. It was found somewhere else.”
Turner, would have been eligible for parole after serving 80 percent of his 11-year sentence. So that was back in 2016, and I checked to see if he was out early from Covid… but I didn’t find any record of him in the State of California, nor in the Federal system. Now maybe his name his spelled differently than it was in the newspaper or, maybe California doesn’t show your name if you’re off parole, but it doesn’t seem like he would be out and off parole already. So I’m not saying he played some type of get out jail free card or is under a different name… but it is interesting that less than 6 months after he was arrested, their was a huge indictment of the 5-2 Broadway Gangster Crips that included murders and was all about drug dealing in, you guessed it, skid row, where lots of people got indicted and sentenced to massive prison terms. Prosecutors called Derrick Turner a gang member at the time of his case. Probably just a coincidence.
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