A southern Mississippi councilman pleaded guilty to federal drug-related charges following an investigation into a business of his that distributed illegal controlled substances, a state attorney’s office said Thursday.
Robert Leon Deming, III, 47, a Biloxi City councilman, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Gulfport to “conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a Schedule I controlled substance,” the statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Mississippi read. Deming reportedly was charged last September.
Officers of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) found that Deming’s Candy Shop, LLC added synthetic cannabinoids, rather than CBD, to its vape products and then passed off the additives as containing CBD, according to the statement. This was despite Deming’s employees’ complaints in…
