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Chivas Day, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his role in the St. Louis area traffic accident that killed Matthew Cole, 23, of Maryville, Illinois. Matthew Cole was driving home from work on the Martin Luther King Bridge when Chivas Day, who was driving under the influence of ecstasy and marijuana, crossed the center line and hit Cole's car head-on. Chivas Day was driving over 100 miles per hour, and the police reported that the gas pedal was fully compressed at the time the accident occurred.

Chivas Day also suffered severe personal injuries because of the automobile accident, including a broken leg, arm, neck, and ankle, and had severe head injuries. Urine tests showed the presence of marijuana and ecstasy, but blood tests taken at the hospital did not show the presence of any drugs or alcohol in Day's system. Either way, Day was driving at speeds well over the speed limit when he hit Cole's car. Further, Day was driving with a revoked licensed at the time of the car crash.

St. Louis federal authorities arrested 24 people in connection with a St. Louis marijuana smuggling ring that stretched from Arizona to St. Louis, Missouri. David Ingram Henderson, of Maryland Heights, Missouri, was considered the ringleader of the drug operation that, since 2006, has been transporting marijuana across the country.

The operation also included growing marijuana in several houses in St. Louis. It is alleged that over 1,000 kilograms of marijuana were brought into St. Louis as a result of this drug operation. The suspects allegedly transported the money back to Arizona by car, plane and bus, and laundered the money through banks and casinos. For example, some members of this organization went to Ameristar Casino in St. Charles, Missouri, and inserted $13,660 in slot machines and immediately printed out vouchers, which they cashed in with the cashier. They never actually played the slot machines. This drug operation also involved flying to Amsterdam to obtain marijuana seeds.

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