ASPEN, Colo.—A 62-year-old man accused of taking part in a drug ring that distributed hundreds of pounds of cocaine in Aspen has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The Aspen Times reports ( ) Montgomery Chitty was sentenced in federal court Tuesday. The former Aspen resident was convicted in April of conspiring to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine.
He was arrested in February 2012 in Big Pine Key, Fla., nearly nine months after Drug Enforcement Administration agents snared 10 people, including six in the Aspen-Snowmass area, on conspiracy charges. The ring was accused of trafficking more than 200 kilograms of cocaine between Aspen and Los Angeles over a 15-year period.
Chitty plans to appeal the sentence, according to a motion filed after Tuesday’s hearing.
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Information from: The Aspen Times,
