According to AllHipHop.com, Ace Capone, CEO of Philadelphia-based label Take Down Records has been sentenced to life plus 55 years.
In 2005, Capone was arrested and accused of being behind a $25 million drug ring. According to police, Capone’s drug ring extended to four different states including Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland.
During his trial, prosecutors accused Capone of trafficking over two tons of powdered cocaine and close to a half-ton of crack in a span of about eight years. And according to prosecutors, he was able to cover up his trafficking though side businesses that included a day care center, a water ice stand, and his label Take Down Records.
Ironically, prosecutors used a Take Down Records DVD as evidence during the trial. In the DVD Capone plays a notorious drug kingpin who is deep in his city’s drug trade.
The DVD, on top of the $500,000 in cash, 10 guns, and 450 grams of cocaine found in Capone’s home assisted greatly in prosecutors winning the case.
“You never respect life, or the value of it, until it’s taken away,“ Judge R. Barclay Surrick explained to Capone.
When sentenced to life and 55 years in prison, a reportedly teary-eyed Capone explained that he “…never thought it would come to this.”
