Feds Factor Teen’s Suicide Into Drug Case of Solicitor’s Husband

The husband of Jeannine Malone will be sentenced on drug trafficking charges in August. The father of 14-year-old Dakota Blaze Dyer intends to speak at the sentencing in Louisiana.

  Federal prosecutors view Dakota Blaze Dyer as a victim in its drug trafficking case against Thomas Malone Jr. and nine other defendants.  Fourteen-year-old Dakota, who lived in Breman, Ga. shot himself and died in March 2012 after prosecutors say he took a synthetic drug known on the street as “Mr. Miyagi.” His father, Lance Dyer, intends to speak at Malone’s sentencing in August. The sentencing date was rescheduled from Jan. 17. “It’s not like a victory to me,” said Dyer. “There is nothing that will ever help you heal from the death of your child.” Malone, of Roswell, is the husband of former Sandy Springs solicitor Jeannine Malone. She was let go from her position, Wednesday, when city officials learned of her husband’s legal problems…

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