WILTON, NY (Associated Press) -- Former mountain biking world champion Melissa "Missy" Giove has pleaded guilty to helping run a coast-to-coast marijuana smuggling ring.
She was arrested in upstate New York in June after one of the drug ring's couriers was intercepted driving a truck carrying 350 pounds of marijuana in Illinois. The courier agreed to cooperate with authorities.
Giove (pronounced "gee-OH-vee") pleaded guilty to a federal drug conspiracy charge Monday in Albany. She is expected to be sentenced March 25 to up to five years in prison.
Giove, 37, lives in Chesapeake, Va. She was under surveillance when she met the courier and drove off with the truck. Authorities said she was taken into custody trying to unload the shipment at the Saratoga County home of another man charged in the case.
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