Steve Tucker served a 10-year prison sentence for selling light bulbs.

[Go Vols]

But he's only half-kidding. Nearly a decade ago, he was sent to prison as a result of a once-infamous federal drug case that sparked national outrage for its rough interpretation of justice.

In the spring of 1994, the Tucker family received lengthy prison sentences -- 10 years for Steve, 16 years for his older brother Gary, and 10 years for his brother's wife, Joanne -- without possibility of parole, for the curiously worded federal crime of "conspiracy to manufacture marijuana."

Yet federal prosecutors never charged them with buying, selling, growing, transporting, smoking or even possessing marijuana. An 18-month DEA investigation had failed to turn up direct evidence connecting the Tuckers to even a single joint.

Instead, they were locked away for selling the lamps, fertilizer and gardening hardware from the small hydroponic supply shop Gary operated on Buford Highway that enabled their customers to grow pot.

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This new group made me think of this and made me sad.I dealt with these people from the day they opened up until the owner told me the DEA had set up shop across the street,MJ was never mentioned in the store any time I was there.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. How horrifying and awful for them. It should not have happened.

[fredamae]

2. Fwiw: I believe they mispelled

his name. It's Steve Tuck, not Tucker.