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Drug dealer takes plea in customer’s shooting

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A convicted Augusta drug dealer accused of shooting a neighbor over a $100 drug debt took a deal Monday, April 18, to close the aggravated assault case and two drug cases in exchange for two years in prison.

The relatively short prison term was offset, however, by Michael J. Tanksley’s probation...

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  1. Wait a minute now. If he was a felon, how was he able to get a gun!? Don’t you have to fill out an ATF form and go thru a background check??? Did the FBI really approve this guy having a gun? Well, I know the FBI is busy rounding up the evil Jan 6 protesters so maybe his approval slipped through. Hmm.

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