SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A Bay Area man who ran a drug lab in Richmond and relentlessly extorted a victim using threats and violence to obtain a drug-manufacturing recipe was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison on Friday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Joel Dowen, 46, of Concord, had pleaded guilty to […]<\/p>\n
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