11:14 AM, Feb. 29, 2012

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20120229/NEWS01/302290048/Lansing-man-sentenced-marijuana-money-laundering-scheme?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7C%7Cs

LANSING — A 65-year-old Lansing man sentenced recently is the last of a group of men involved in a Lansing- and Detroit-area marijuana trafficking conspiracy that involved more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana and money laundering.

Joe Lewis Parker Sr. was sentenced in U.S. District Court to one year of probation for structuring currency in relation to the case.

Earlier this month, 50-year-old Zenobia Monique Bailey, of Detroit, was sentenced to 168 months in prison for the scheme, and in December Joe Lewis Parker Jr., 43, of Bath, was sentenced to 54 months in prison.

Asante Parker, 33, of Lansing, was sentenced last year to 262 months in prison for intent to distribute marijuana and laundering the drug money.

Parker told authorities that he and others would purchase various amounts of marijuana from an Arizona supplier and transport the drugs to Michigan using delivery vans with fake commercial markings, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan.

Parker admitted to paying Bailey on multiple occassions for the drugs, processing the drugs at Joe Lewis Parker Jr.’s home and buying a house in Munith with the drug money by using Joe Lewis Parker Sr., his father, as a nominee, according to a news release.

The three all pleaded guilty to the drug-related charges in 2011, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. Four other have pleaded guilty and have been sentenced in connection with the case.