Cocaine courier, aged 90, jailed on birthday

A 90-year-old Indiana man who admitted serving as a cocaine courier for a Mexican drug cartel was sentenced to three years in prison on what was his birthday.

Leo Sharp, a decorated World War Two combat veteran, was also sentenced to three years supervised release by Judge Nancy Edmunds in US District Court in Detroit.

Sharp had told Edmunds before she sentenced him, “All I can tell you your honour is that I’m really heartbroken that I did what I did. But it’s done.”