WASHINGTON, DC: President Biden granted clemency to 31 federal inmates on Friday, April 28. However, the vast majority of approximately 2,700 federal prisoners serving time for marijuana-related offenses were not included in the list. One of the individuals who received clemency was Lori Broadway, 41, who was caught smuggling 15.7 pounds of heroin on an Amtrak train and was arrested in January 2016.
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Court documents revealed that authorities became suspicious of Broadway’s activities after she made multiple trips from Houston to New Jersey via Amtrak, with stops in New Orleans, in October and December of 2015. When confronted by police in New Orleans, Broadway claimed to have “a lot” of “cocaine” in her bags, but tests later revealed that the six brown bricks she was carrying contained heroin. “Total weight of the heroin was 15.7 pounds,” charging documents revealed.
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Lori Broadway pleaded guilty in June 2016 to transporting between 3 and 10 kilograms of heroin and was sentenced to 10 years in prison with five years of supervised release. Despite being scheduled for early release in August 2024, Biden commuted her sentence along with 30 others, leaving behind the estimated 2,700 federal pot…
