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Show Hurren faces drug sentencing testified in that trial. Of those named in the drug trafficking charges, 15 areUtahns. Two other defendants in the case who have pleaded guilty and will be sentenced Nov. 21 are George E. O'Brien, 41, Orinda, Calif, and Richard A. Tyree, 38, Oakland, Calif. According to the indictment, O'Brien acquired cocaine from a South American source and supplied it to the distributors. Tyree is charged charg-ed with acquiring and distributing the cocaine. The sentencing date for the Heber man authorities claim organized an Intermountain drug distribution ring has been set for Nov. 21. Michael C. Hurren, 40, pleaded guilty last week to four more counts of drug trafficking in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Hurren, who investigators have tagged as the "mastermind" of a $15 million cocaine distribution ring, pleaded guilty to four drug-related counts of a 127-count indictment Aug. 15. Hurren had pleaded guilty to the original four charges as part of a plea-bargain arrangement with prosecutors. pro-secutors. That arrangement could have resulted in a sentence of no more than 30 years in prison. However, the plea bargain was called call-ed off by U.S. District Senior Judge Aldon J. Anderson when the U.S. Attorney's At-torney's office complained that Hurren Hur-ren was not cooperating. A Jan. 13 trial date has been set for five of the 21 people named in the indictment. in-dictment. As part of the now-defunct plea bargain, Hurren would have |