Crime & Safety
Ex-Lexington Rep. Sentenced in Case Out of 'Breaking Bad'
Stephen W. Doran pleaded guilty to trafficking methamphetamine.
A former state representative and Town Meeting member from Lexington was sentenced last month to three years in prison in a case straight out of the television series "Breaking Bad."
Stephen W. Doran pleaded guilty to trafficking methamphetamine, according to the Boston Herald.
Doran served seven terms in the House and was known as the "Golden Boy" of Lexington's annual Town Meeting. He moved out of town in 1994.
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Doran is battling cancer, according to the Herald.
He was arrested last year after prosecutors said he had 400 grams of meth mailed to him at a Jamaica Plain school where he worked as a tutor.
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In "Breaking Bad," the main character Walter White, stricken with cancer, resorts to selling meth to pay his medical bills.
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