Kentucky Man Gets Presidential Pardon

{Washington, D.C.}...Retired criminal investigator Phillip Wagner, who led the 1987 bust of one of the largest domestic marijuana syndicates in the country, says he's OK with President Barack Obama's decision to pardon 60 year old Lesley Claywood Berry Jr. a Loretto, Kentucky man involved in the growing operation that landed him in federal prison for three years. As state and federal investigators came through the front door of a barn in Minnesota during a bust of the "Cornbread Mafia" in October 1987, Les Berry Jr. went out the back with six others and nearly escaped but was captured the next day in Wisconsin. Berry pleaded guilty in 1988 to conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana. Berry, a one-time associate of 68 year old Johnny Boone, a fugitive known as the "Godfather of Grass" and the "King of Pot," was pardoned on November 21st, restoring his rights to vote and carry a firearm. No reason was given for granting the pardon.