Man gets 11 years in case where police dog died

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(AP) NEW BERN, N.C. - A North Carolina man whose hidden cocaine was found by a police dog that bit into the package and died has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.
Federal prosecutors said a judge Friday ordered 33-year-old Jamie Gonzalez-Lopez to spend 135 months behind bars. He pleaded guilty to several drug charges.
Authorities say undercover federal agents ordered a kilogram of cocaine from Gonzalez-Lopez in July 2011. Gonzalez-Lopez then hid the drugs in a Brunswick County field while waiting to meet the "buyer."
Agents arrested Gonzalez-Lopez, and a sheriff's drug-sniffing Belgian Malinois named Viper was sent into the field to find the drugs. Viper accidentally bit into the package and bit and shook it, ingesting a fatal amount of cocaine.
More than 200 people turned out for a memorial service for the dog.
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By the way most of the world still has cocaine as illegal, Nor is the war on illegal drugs a prohibition.... people who support illegal drugs or use them are just out right stupid. so shut it about war on drugs or using them, etc stick to the facts....you do the crime you do the time, cant handle it to bad
Legalizing violations of rights (legal prohibitions - yes, the war on drugs is a prohibition, even if you don't want to believe it - against behavior which violates no one's rights) does not make those violations right; it only makes government corrupt, acting to violate rights instead of protecting them, rights that you yourself depend upon or hope to depend upon.
What principle are you going to invoke when your own rights in some area have been outlawed? (You obviously and stupidly do not think that the War on Drugs violates your rights?)
When a criminal violates your rights, he at least doesn't demand that your recognize his actions as right, or legal, but the government, along with those who apologize for laws that violate rights, do.
Jamie Gonzalez-Lopez is not responsible for that dog's death. Those who used the dogs in their assault on individual rights caused his death. And, those such as yourself who give moral support to the War on Drugs are responsible for his death, and much worse than that.
Legalizing violations of rights (legal prohibitions - yes, the war on drugs is a prohibition, even if you don't want to believe it - against behavior which violates no one's rights) does not make those violations right; it only makes government corrupt, acting to violate rights instead of protecting them, rights that you yourself depend upon or hope to depend upon.
What principle are you going to invoke when your own rights in some area have been outlawed? (You obviously and stupidly do not think that the War on Drugs violates your rights?)
When a criminal violates your rights, he at least doesn't demand that your recognize his actions as right, or legal, but the government, along with those who apologize for laws that violate rights, do.
Jamie Gonzalez-Lopez is not responsible for that dog's death. Those who used the dogs in their assault on individual rights caused his death. And, those such as yourself who give moral support to the War on Drugs are responsible for his death, and much worse than that.