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Arpan Rai

Drug dealer, whose sentence was commuted by Obama, charged after shooting woman on highway

Twitter/ Illinois State Police

A former crack-cocaine dealer, who was granted clemency by Barack Obama in 2016, has been arrested over a highway shooting which left a passenger with “life-threatening injuries”.

Alton D Mills, 54, has been charged with three counts of attempted murder, Illinoisstate police said on Thursday.

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