MIAMI, June 23 (UPI) -- Jamaican musician Buju Banton has been sentenced in Florida to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine, court records show.
The Grammy Award-winning reggae singer was also found guilty of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking offense and using communication wires to facilitate a drug-trafficking offense.
Rolling Stone reported Thursday Banton's lawyers have requested the performer be imprisoned near Miami so his family could visit him.
The magazine didn't say whether the petition had been granted.
Banton was arrested in 2009 after telling an informant working for the Drug Enforcement Administration he could sell him cocaine. He was convicted in February after a previous mistrial.
