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Drug ‘kingpin’ draws
17 year sentence
Convicted drug ring kingpin Robert Reckmeyer was sentenced to 17 years in prison without the possibility of parole Friday in federal court at Alexandria.
The 31-year-old Centreville man forfeited to the government an estimated $1.5 to $2.5 million in assets, which included 4,000 grams of Thai gold, a 1,000 ounce silver bar and scores of sapphires, emeralds and rubies, a U.S. Attorney’s spokesman said.
Reckmeyer and his brother Christopher, owner of the Shelburne Glebe estate in Loudoun, both pleaded guilty in mid-March after Robert agreed to cooperate with the government in exchange for a lighter sentence.
They were convicted on the charge of conducting a continuing criminal enterprise, the so-called “kingpin” statute, which carries a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole.
Christopher is scheduled for sentencing May 10. Since he too agreed to forego a trial, he was also promised a prison sentence of 10 to 20 years.
Robert’s wife, Patricia, was sentenced Friday to three years in prison with all of it suspended for a conviction of filing a false income tax return. A mother of three, she will be under probation for two years.
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