Several years ago, Richard Grundy III received what a federal prosecutor hailed as the “plea deal of a century.”
On Thursday, Grundy received the sentence of a lifetime. Quite literally.
Grundy, 30 was sentenced Thursday at the U.S. federal courthouse to a mandatory life sentence after a jury convicted him of charges related to a drug organization that authorities said sold marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin in Indianapolis.
During his sentencing hearing, federal prosecutor Bradley Blackington said Grundy would never have found himself in this situation if he had just learned from his mistakes and taken advantage of that previous plea deal.
Grundy had been on law enforcement’s radar since 2014. In 2015, they finally nabbed the then-accused leader of the “Grundy Crew” on five counts of murder and a slew of other felonies in Marion County.
