Cocaine dealer Domingo Baez gets 15 years in prison

Cocaine dealer Domingo Baez gets 15 years in prison: "Baez, 40, of Billings, apologized Wednesday for “my involvement in all of this. I accept totally what I’ve done.’’ He asked for mercy, saying he had nobody to help him as youth and survived a rough upbringing in Chicago by dealing drugs.
“I want to do better,” he said. “I am a better person.”
Senior U.S. District Judge Jack Shanstrom acknowledged his tough life in Chicago but told Baez that he’d had numerous second chances. When Baez moved to Billings in about 2003 to start over, he brought his cocaine business with him, the judge said.
Shanstrom said Baez had a prior felony drug conviction. And he noted that Baez had been charged 33 times in criminal cases that were mostly dismissed because of an overworked justice system.
Shanstrom sentenced Baez near the top of the guideline range that spanned from about 12-1/2 years to about 15-1/2 years. The term is the longest sentence among about a dozen people convicted in the conspiracy. The term would be a deterrent to others and show that drug trafficking “will not be tolerated,” Shanstrom said."