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Governor John Bel Edwards has denied the clemency request of one of the men jailed for plotting the murder of drug runner and government informant Barry Seal.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana parole board is recommending that a man convicted in the 1986 death of drug smuggler and federal informant Barry Seal be made eligible for parole. The Advocate reports that the Pardons and Parole board has sent the recommendation to Gov.
Bernardo Vasquez was convicted of killing federal informant Barry Seal in 1986, and was sentenced to life in prison. A Louisiana parole board now recommends Vasquez receive parole.
BATON ROUGE - Barry Seal was a Baton Rouge native who worked as a drug runner for the cartel, smuggling hundreds of thousands of dollars of cocaine into the United States.
FLORA Cannabis in Middlebury, Mountain Girl Cannabis in Rutland and CeresMED in Burlington will all open on Saturday. A fourth business has been licensed to sell recreational marijuana but isn't ready to do so yet.