An Arkansas driver has been sentenced for trading a tractor-trailer
filled with more than $50,000 of luncheon meat for crack cocaine.
45-year-old Larry Bowen was sentenced to one year of in-patient drug
treatment and six years of probation. The Mabelvale man also was ordered
to pay $18,500 in restitution.
Bowen had been hired to deliver the luncheon meat in Alabama and Florida
last June.
When the meat was not delivered, the company used the truck’s GPS and found it at a service station in Memphis, Tennessee. Gone was the truck’s refrigerated trailer. The truck’s tires had been replaced with cheaper ones. Police officers found Bowen, sitting near the truck and eating a luncheon meat sandwich.
Bowen finally admitted that he was the driver of the truck. He then led them to the trailer hidden in a storage facility nearby. About a third of the shipment was missing. Bowen told officers he had stopped at the station three days earlier and “inadvertently” traded the trailer and the luncheon meat to two men for crack cocaine.
When the meat was not delivered, the company used the truck’s GPS and found it at a service station in Memphis, Tennessee. Gone was the truck’s refrigerated trailer. The truck’s tires had been replaced with cheaper ones. Police officers found Bowen, sitting near the truck and eating a luncheon meat sandwich.
Bowen finally admitted that he was the driver of the truck. He then led them to the trailer hidden in a storage facility nearby. About a third of the shipment was missing. Bowen told officers he had stopped at the station three days earlier and “inadvertently” traded the trailer and the luncheon meat to two men for crack cocaine.
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