Did you ever watch that show on the Playboy channel called Buckwild, where Snoop Dogg and this guy named Ken Francis followed rappers around to strip clubs and stuff? Well you should have. Maybe if the show had been more successful, Ken wouldn't be going to jail for smuggling Ecstasy! Dude had a little modeling agency on the side where prosecutors said he took part in a drug smuggling ring that involved recruiting couriers to travel to Belgium and the Netherlands to pick up packages containing Ecstasy tablets. The couriers told authorities they were told they were smuggling diamonds. The packages actually contained tens of thousands of pills that were brought into Los Angeles and New York in 2000 and 2001, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Cheryl Murphy. Before he was sentenced Monday, Francis told U.S. District Judge Manuel Real that he "got involved in this whole drug-smuggling conspiracy by wanting to start my own business, which was a modeling business." He said he initially thought the models were traveling to Europe for photo shoots, but he later learned they were smuggling drugs.(Newsday)
