Former Aspen man convicted in cocaine case

Author: Associated Press
POSTED: 11:43 AM MST Mar 01, 2013 
DENVER -

A federal jury has found former Aspen resident Montgomery Chitty guilty of drug charges following an investigation into a ring that distributed of hundreds of pounds of cocaine in Aspen over nearly a decade.
    
Chitty faces a mandatory minimum of 20 years in prison. He will be sentenced May 28.
    
According to the Aspen Daily News (http://tinyurl.com/c5sush3 ), three men testified that Chitty took over a cocaine ring after the arrest of Aspen resident Wayne Reid. The witnesses told jurors that Chitty bought and sold hundreds of pounds of cocaine from 2002 to 2010.

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