Crime & Safety
Want Crack with That? Burger Joint Owner Convicted for Selling Drugs
A jury convicted the owner of a Los Angeles walk-up burger joint for selling crack at his restaurant.

LOS ANGELES, CA -- A jury convicted the owner of a Los Angeles burger joint Friday for selling crack cocaine at his restaurant.
Brian Sawyers, 57, of Los Angeles, faces five years to life when he is sentenced in November for selling crack to a to a confidential informant working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Sawyers was found guilty Friday of two felony offenses of distribution of cocaine base in the form of crack cocaine.
At the three-day trial jurors hear evidence that in two separate instances, Sawyers sold 26.9 grams and 70.6 grams of crack cocaine to a ATF confidential informant at his business, B.D. Burgers, a a walk-up burger joint in Los Angeles.
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“Narcotics trafficking poses a serious threat to the health and safety of our local communities,” said United States Attorney Eileen M. Decker. “Mr. Sawyers chose to conduct his sales of crack cocaine despite having been previously convicted of a federal narcotics offense. As a result of his misguided choices, he shall now be facing a lengthy prison sentence.”
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