Lottery winner gets 21 years for drug, gun charges

By Jennifer Cruz

Ronnie Music Jr. won $3 million playing the lottery, but will spend the next 21 years in federal prison. (Photo: Florida Times-Union)
A 46-year-old man from Waycross, Georgia, who hit it big more than two years ago when he won the lottery, will spend the next two decades behind bars for drug trafficking and weapons charges,
A federal court sentenced Ronnie Music, Jr. to 21 years in prison for his role in the trafficking scheme, the Department of Justice announced last week. He pleaded guilty in July to being a felon in possession of firearms and conspiring to traffic large quantities of methamphetamine.
According to court documents, Music won $3 million from scratch-off tickets in February 2015, then used his winnings to invest in massive amounts of crystal meth for redistribution and profit.
Seven months after Music won the lottery conspirators working with Music were arrested after they attempted to sell more than 10 pounds of methamphetamine to undercover agents in the parking lot of a Winn-Dixie in Brunswick. Music, who was the drug supplier, witnessed the botched deal but avoided being caught at that time.
But Music was arrested less than a month after he sold several pounds of methamphetamine to what turned

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