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Three Cape men receive prison sentences in federal courtTuesday, November 3, 2009Three Cape Girardeau men were sentenced in federal court in Cape Girardeau today, according to news releases from the federal prosecutor's office. Nathaniel Carter Worley, 36, of Cape Girardeau was sentenced to 180 months in prison on a felony count of possession of pseudoephedrine with intent to manufacture methamphetamine and a count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He will be placed on a three-year period of supervised released on his release from prison. With a previous plea, Worley admitted to receiving pseudoephedrine pills for a promise of methamphetamine to a police informant. The gun charge stems from a 2008 incident in which Worley was found slumped over the wheel of his vehicle by a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper and a rifle was found in his vehicle. Michael Wayne Hinton, 31, of Cape Girardeau was sentenced to 242 years in prison on a felony count of conspiracy to manufacture 5 grams or more of methamphetamine. After his release Hinton will be on supervised release for eight years. With a previous plea Hinton admitted to being in possession of methamphetamine and starter fluid to be used to make the drug during a Jan. 20 arrest. Jason Ponder, 22, of Cape Girardeau was sentenced to 80 months in prison on a felony count of conspiracy to possess pseudoephedrine knowing it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine. He will be on supervised release for two years after his prison term is over. With a previous plea Ponder admitted to providing pseudoephedrine to another person in exchange for methamphetamine. Comments  Note: The nature of the Internet makes it impractical for our staff to review every comment. If you feel that a comment is offensive, please Login or Create an account first, and then you will be able to flag a comment as objectionable. Please also note that those who post comments on semissourian.com may do so using a screen name, which may or may not reflect a website user's actual name. Readers should be careful not to assign comments to real people who may have names similar to screen names. Refrain from obscenity in your comments, and to keep discussions civil, don't say anything in a way your grandmother would be ashamed to read.
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If Hilton survies his 242 years it would seem strange to watch him another 8 years
I agree DarkStar.... 242 yrs... Save Money Live Better ......
Are all your proof readers asleep, or is our system completly gone bonkers??
Poor Hilton, Its a good thing he wasent planing on making 10 grams.....!!
Darkstar, I thought exactly the same thing!!! It gave me my belly laugh for the day!
242 years??!! Seems like the punishment doesn't fit the crime. Just sayin'.
Typo! Federal Court sentences in MONTHS, not Years!
The amount of time that these guys were given is unjust. 20yrs for conspiracy not actual caught doing it. Thats nuts, that just tells you how out of wack this government system is. The other guy got 7yrs for conspiracy of buying pills that was not over the state laws amount and charged him with conspiracy a year after they were bought saying he was going to sell them to someone to make meth. That crazy sounds like they are wasting our money. I bet the women who planned to murder her husband don't even get this much time because she doesn't have a crimnal history. This system is sad, I can see if people were actually caught manufacturing but not conspiracy. Also the guy in this case that was actually caught manufacturing meth got 55months cause he had never been in trouble. The problem is every time you get in trouble you get points added to your time for the things you have done in your past. To me if you already done the time for those things they shouldn't count against you the next time you do something.
yes, fed sentences are in months but it sure was a good laugh to imagine that they would supervise him for 8 years after 242 years!
Whats wrong justiceforhim?? sounds like you lost your supply. I'm glad they send these crap people away for a long time, sets an example to the other sh&t bums to think twice before they make drugs to sell to kids. As far as time spent for crimes in the past... they didnt learn much because they are doing it again. Maybe 15-20 years of dropping the soap will make them think twice about being a worthless dopehead!! Im glad these three wasted peices of crap are off the streets... sometime the system does work!
Around the world that sentence comes in pretty low. Some places execute people for a lot less. Good to be an American!
If you can't do the time, Don't do the crime!
No Mr. Rubbermaid I haven't lost my supply never done drugs, I took a different path than my brother did. I went to school and became an nurse. I don't feel sorry for him because he is responsible for his own actions. He should go to prison but I just think if you serve your time then you shouldn't be sentenced based on prior charges since he already served his time. So pretty much he is doing a longer sentence because of his past history. Which he served his time. My brother didn't sell to kids he bought pills and gave them to someone else in exchange for his own habit. Also the system doesn't work. When people get out of jail they can't even get jobs because of felony's also the can't even go to vo-tech to get some training to get a job. The system keeps them off the street and then lets them out and then what can they do. They need skills to get any where in life Mr. Rubbermaid. And yes they should go to jail you missed the whole point of my comment. All people that are addicted to drugs aren't bad people, they just have to be shown a different way of life and you have to have skills to aquire a higher standard of living.
If the family can't show a drug addict a different way of life, it's left to the judical system. Some never learn, others learn very quickly.
Rubbermaid cuts to the quick. But, what he neglects to see is that but for the Grace of God goes he.
So what's this going to cost us to keep these guys locked up so long?
justice, I can understand what you're trying to say, but if they didn't take into account prior charges, then how fair would it be for sex offenders and murderers to get off easier just because we did't look at their priors?
Sorry, but if you've done it before and do it again, you obviously didn't learn and you definitely need to spend MORE time in jail, no matter what crime you committed. Some people just have thick heads and need an extra few years until they realize what they've done.
Just because someone has a drug problem,they don't deserve to serve more time in prison than some who sets a murder up or involved with it. A person who has a drug problem gets a longer sentence than even someone who rapes a child or elderly person.
I don't think he is serving extra time because he had prior charges. I think he just didn't learn his darn lesson the first two or three or four times. He made his choices. Now he must do his time. Maybe in 20 years, he will feel a bit different about using drugs. Trust me, I been there, done that and it didn't take 20 years of prison to make me stop. What a knucklehead! The system hasn't failed him. Going to treatment doesn't "cure" him. It would be left up to the individual to choose to make the right choice.
242 months in the Federal pen costs around $600,000. Tack on the costs of the trial and potential appeals and it is easily costing around taxpayers a million to put away a single meth maker.
What do we get for that money? Do we have would-be meth tweakers going clean simply because they are unable to find a new dealer? Best case all we did was interrupt a minor portion of the our local Meth supply chain for a week or two.
Busting a meth dealer to fight the "war on drugs" is just as effective as the closing down of a single area convenience store would be at fighting those evil cigarette smokers. Addicts will simply go to new suppliers, and even if one could magically eliminate every supplier all it would do is create a highly profitable market void that would quickly be filled by a fresh group of suppliers looking to make a quick buck.
China did it right and stopped Opium. Criminals were hung immediately after the trial for possession of any amount.