Who knew dealing drugs could be considered a not-for-profit business.
A federal court in Missouri denied the appeal of a convicted heroin dealer — who claimed his “religious rights” were violated when he was arrested!
Timothy Anderson argued federal prosecutors violated his rights because distributing heroin was an “exercise of his sincerely held religious belief.”
Anderson’s effort to present his defense that he is a student of “esoteric and mysticism studies” was denied by a St. Louis judge.
According to the appeals court ruling, The pushy drug peddler declared he had created a religious nonprofit to provide and distribute the illegal drug to “the sick, lost, blind, lame, deaf and dead members of God’s Kingdom!”
In addition, the court ruled that the government had not violated the religious freedom act because it “had a compelling interest in combating heroin trafficking.”
Anderson was sentenced at the hearing to 27 years in federal prison.
