Drug dealer who had his face, fingertips altered gets life

A federal judge issued a life sentenced today to a high-level drug dealer who hauled cocaine and marijuana to Detroit by the busload and traveled to Mexico to have nine plastic surgeries and his fingerprints removed to avoid identification.
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“Mr. Black is without question one of the most cunning, one of the most sophisticated and one of the most dangerous individuals I have ever prosecuted,” Buckley said. “He needs to be in prison for the safety of the community.”
In April 2008, Black offered St. Clair County sheriff’s deputies $11 million to set him free while they were transporting him on I-94 to Detroit.
They declined his offer and: “Black then ripped the screen cage off the van window, and then broke the glass window with his head and shoulder before worming out of the moving van and onto the freeway,” according to a sentencing memorandum filed in federal court. (What a fucking gorilla)
A sheriff’s deputy leapt from the moving van to the freeway to capture him.
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“Black’s drug partner and co-conspirator, Chris Perez, told an informant in a recorded conversation on Sept. 16, 2004, that Perez had “burned” Esparza after a disagreement over drug trafficking and that Black killed Martinez because Martinez had “seen his [Black’s] face and could identify Black,” Buckley wrote in the sentencing memorandum.
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He traveled to Mexico that same month to have a doctor perform plastic surgery on his cheeks, chin, mouth, forehead and nose, Buckley said. And he had the doctor obliterate his fingerprints.