A wealthy British drug runner was convicted Wednesday of plotting to smuggle hundreds of thousands of pounds (dollars) worth of marijuana into the Channel Island of Jersey.
Curtis Warren, 46, and his co-accused _ Jonathan Welsh, 43, James O'Brien, 45, Jason Woodward, 22, Paul Hunt, 27, and Oliver Lucas, 23 _ were all found guilty of conspiring to buy 180 kilograms (400 pounds) of cannabis in Amsterdam and ship it through France to Jersey.
The men, who denied the charge, are due to be sentenced on Dec. 4. They each face up to 14 years in prison.
Warren's wealth was such that …
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