Roxanne Granberry had a separate bank account from her husband and sometimes a separate home. But a jury in an Alexandria federal court decided that the couple should go to prison together for illegally buying and selling prescription painkillers.
Roxanne Granberry’s defense attorney, Jonathan Simms, emphasized that the more than $1 million in cash the Hughesville, Md., couple appeared to garner from the scheme went mostly into William Granberry’s bank account. The two separated at times, and William Granberry maintained his own residence where he cheated on his wife and kept drug-related possessions.
But jurors were convinced that Roxanne Granberry knew about and contributed to the drug businesses, despite any marital strain.
“William Granberry was unable to hide his serial affairs from [his wife],” Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Kaminska argued in closing. “Yet he was somehow able to conceal a multi-year drug operation?”
Conspirators testified that she weighed in on financial decisions related to the pill scheme and even joined a trip to Georgia to try to obtain oxycodone at a clinic.
Both Granberrys face up to 20 years in prison. Four other defendants involved in the ring are awaiting sentencing; eight others have already been sentenced.
