David McConnell says he didn’t dream of becoming a drug dealer. After all, he graduated from the collegiate high school at Miami Dade College and nearly completed his business degree as an honors student at Florida International University. But a lifetime of feeling like a misfit with psychological issues drove him to drugs, eventually turning McConnell into one of South Florida’s biggest smugglers of the club drug Molly, all of it ordered from China — an illicit narcotics pipeline spotlighted by the Miami Herald in a recent three-part series. On Monday, McConnell’s defense attorney hoped to persuade a federal...
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