Grocery owners get probation in cold-medicine case

AUGUSTA - The owners of a small grocery who sold large amounts of cold medicine later used to make methamphetamine were sentenced Wednesday to three years on probation. <br> <br> Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Michael Marbert said stores have to restrict sales of over-the-counter cold and sinus medicine. Wholesalers are registered with the DEA and must record large sales. <br> <br> Kyung and Su Park of the Dino Grocery did not know that initially, said defense attorney Richard Allen. But they admitted that when they learned Christopher A. Murray was likely buying boxes of the over-the-counter medicine, they continued to sell it to him, Allen said. <br> <br> Murray, David Murrah and Glenn Florence were indicted last year on charges stemming from the Parks&#39; arrest. Murrah, 37, pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing and distributing methamphetamine and was sentenced to 10 years to life in federal prison.