Larry Ron Bowen (Photo : YouTube)
An Arkansas tractor-trailer driver pleaded guilty on charges filed against him for trading $50,000 worth of lunch meat in exchange for crack cocaine resulting to him being sentenced on Monday.
The driver was identified as Larry Ron Bowen and he was ordered by the Shelby County District Attorney's office to pay $18,500 as a reimbursement for the stolen goods. He will also undergo a year of inpatient drug treatment and was sentenced to six years of probation, Memphis Flyer reported.
According to the publication, Bowen was hired in June 2014 to deliver the meat to different destinations in Alabama and Florida but he never completed his assigned task. Because of the reports that the goods were not delivered, the company tracked down the truck as a GPS was installed in it.
The company then found the tractor-trailer at a service station located at Lamar and Winchester in Memphis. The trailer full of refrigerated meat was already gone and the tires of the said truck were also replaced with cheaper versions.
Bowen was found near the truck where he was eating a lunch meat sandwich before confessing that he was responsible for the delivery of the goods. He then led the officers to where the trailer was and around one third of the goods were no longer there.
Bowen told the officers that he has been in the said station for three days already but noted that he unintentionally traded the lunch meat to two unidentified men for crack cocaine. It remains unknown how much crack cocaine was given to Bowen for him to give up the whole trailer, Huffington Post reported.
