Manager/Official Was Meth Kingpin, Gets Prison Time

by David P. Greisman

The man who went by John Glozier and David John Blaikie was a boxing manager, a matchmaker and had served as a supervisor for the World Boxing Organization in New Zealand.

But the 53-year-old also had another way of making money — he headed up a group that distributed methamphetamine, which led to him being attacked by gang members two years ago, then arrested himself, and then sentenced earlier this week to 40 months in prison, according to the NZME News Service.

That sentence was six months shorter than it could’ve been; it was lessened by half a year “given the difficulties he will have in serving time with his knee injury,” the article said, referencing an injury from 2012 in which he was knee-capped.

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