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You are here: Home / News / Community News / John Choe admits selling meth, heroin, cocaine

John Choe admits selling meth, heroin, cocaine

September 13, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

John Chong-Hun Choe (Photo by a Yelp reviewer)

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The owner of a Puyallup bar has pleaded guilty to a federal charge that he sold drugs from the establishment.

John Chong-Hun Choe ran Johnny’s Bar and Grill. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for western Washington says that early this year, he sold cocaine four times to a police informant.

He also admitted selling meth, heroin and other drugs. The state suspended the bar’s liquor license in June.

Choe pleaded guilty on Sept. 6 in U.S. District Court in Seattle to possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute. The crime can carry a five-year mandatory minimum sentence, but prosecutors have agreed to apply a “safety valve” provision in federal law that allows for lesser sentences for nonviolent drug offenders with little or no criminal history.

Judge Benjamin H. Settle scheduled sentencing for Dec. 16.

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Filed Under: Community News Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 38 | SEPTEMBER 14 - SEPTEMBER 20

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