Tuesday, August 18, 2009
COLUMBUS (AP) — A federal jury has convicted a man the government said was the leader of an Ohio ring that moved more than $1 million in heroin a year.
Ronald Kelsor, 54, was found guilty Monday on all 22 counts against him, including conspiracy to distribute more than 1,000 grams of heroin, and possession of a firearm in the furtherance of a drug crime.
Kelsor was arrested last year and was one of 32 people charged in a ring that authorities said moved Mexican heroin between Marysville, north of Columbus, to southeast Ohio’s Nelsonville. His was the only case to go to trial; 29 other defendants made plea deals, and two died.
Kelsor faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison.