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APRIL 27, 2023 • Vol. 3, No. 9
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Drug kingpin sentenced to 22 years after Novi PlayStation bust BY CHARITY MEIER cmeier@candgnews.com
Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
AUTOMATED AMPHIBIANS GEAR UP AND JOIN FROG FORCE AT WORLD COMPETITION BY CHARITY MEIER
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NOVI — The Novi Community School District was represented by four
teams at the robotics world competition this month. The teams included two middle school teams and two high school teams — Frog Force and the new and less-wellknown Automated Amphibians.
The Automated Amphibians team, which was initiated in 2020 but left dormant for a while, was brought back by lead mentor Chris Pall, whose son, Nathan, 14, See ROBOTICS on page 8A
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DETROIT — A leader of a national drug ring and money laundering scheme will serve a long term in prison after the Universal Product Code on a Sony PlayStation box led federal agents to make a bust in Novi. Judge Terrence G. Berg, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, sentenced Maurice Montain McCoy Jr., 41, of Moreno Valley, California, to 22 years in prison on March 29. McCoy was the leader of a national drug ring that had international ties, according to a press release from Dawn N. Ison, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. She said McCoy trafficked fentanyl, heroin and cocaine across the country. Novi was one of multiple distribution hubs, according to Ison’s office. Over 30 kilograms of fentanyl and more than $500,000 in cash was seized from the organization’s stash house in Novi, according to the press release. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s seizure was the largest fentanyl seizure in Michigan and one of the largest in the United States at the time, according to the release. “Fentanyl is now the leading cause of overdose deaths. The number of lives saved by this seizure is inestimable,” Ison said in
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