REGGAE artiste Buju Banton will serve his ten year prison sentence at the Limestone County Correctional Institution in Groesbeck, Texas. Banton was moved from a holding facility in the state of Oklahama by air to the facility on Friday.
He spent more than a month at the Federal Transfer Center (FTC) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma after being moved from the Pinellas County Jail in Tampa, Florida.
Banton, whose inmate number is 86700-004, is set to be released on February 1, 2019.
Registered as Mark Anthony Myrie, Banton was found guilty of drug related charges and sentenced to ten years in a Tampa, Florida court in February. A first trial ended in a mistrial after a panel of jurors could not unanimously decide on his guilt or innocence.
He has maintained his innocence and claims he was entrapped by the United States Government. (Jamaica Observer)
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