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BRUNSWICK, GA. | A man described as the “godfather of McIntosh County” was sentenced to three years and four months in prison Tuesday on drug and credit card conspiracies but only because of his cooperation with federal investigators and prosecutors.
Chief U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood sentenced Sterling Hunter “Tuffy” Bond, 53, to a sentence lighter than that called for in the advisory guidelines after an FBI agent traveled from an assignment in Washington, D.C., to speak in his behalf. Bond had pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to possess and distribute illegal drugs and conspiracy to traffic in…