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In the Northern District of California, a juryconvicted the chief financial officer of Media Vision, Inc. This conviction followed guilty pleas by fourother company officials: the Chief Executive Officer, ChiefOperating Officer, the Sales Vice President and the Controller. While returningmerchandise at a Wal-Mart, the defendant became confrontationaland argumentative. The defendantadmitted to distributing approximately 80 kilograms ofmethamphetamine over a two-and-half to three-year period. In the Western District of Texas, two defendants wereeach sentenced to life imprisonment after a jury convicted themof running a continuing criminal enterprise that distributedapproximately 75 tons of marijuana through the West Texas areaand other parts of the United States. Members of his organization also stolethe identities of credit card holders, manufactured counterfeitcredit cards with that information, and then went to variousstores and purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars worth ofmerchandise using the counterfeit credit cards. In the Western District of Missouri, a pharmacist,who diluted drugs that had been prescribed as treatment forcancer patients, pleaded guilty to consumer product tampering,drug adulteration, and drug misbranding.