Seventy-two-year-old Robert Holding admitted delivering pot along his milk route.

He claims he only sold it to elderly customers for their aches and pains and that he didn’t make a profit from it, according to wire service reports.

A judge issued a 36-month prison sentence but suspended it because Holding visits his wife, who has Alzheimer’s disease, every day in a nursing home.

The judge told Holding he wasn’t a philanthropist helping the elderly out of the goodness of his heart. The jurist says this was a case of dealing drugs for profit.

The prosecutor also said there’s no evidence that the drug sales were only to elderly customers.

But Holding stands by his story.

Timothy McCormack was recently sentenced to the maximum of three years and five months in prison for lying about his qualifications to perform maintenance checks on Qantas jets. He could be paroled in two years.

McCormack conducted 30 maintenance checks on planes leaving Sydney, Australia, that he wasn’t licensed to perform, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

Those inspections put up to 12,000 passengers in danger.

McCormack pleaded guilty to 42 charges, including forging a maintenance engineer’s license.

Here’s the best part: Even after pleading guilty, apparently, he couldn’t stop lying.

He faked four character references he gave to the court before his sentencing.

Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran has gone to jail — because he wants to.

He’s talking to inmates so he can find out what they think of the county lock-up.

Curran said he’s also drawing attention to jails’ overpopulation issues, including the number of mentally ill, uneducated and repeat offenders. His suggestion: More rehabilitation.

So far Curran has met several inmates, and not all of them knew he’s the sheriff, according to local media reports.

Unlike other inmates, Curran gets to leave jail when he wants: Aug. 27.

Unfortunately, that’s what happened recently within the Dallas, PA, police department.

Former part-time officer Steven Klinger pulled over a woman while he was off duty — just to give her his phone number.

Klinger is off the force and will spend 30 days in jail for official oppression — in other words, acting outside his authority as an officer.

Police say he used red and blue lights mounted on the dashboard of his pickup truck to pull over the woman. She became suspicious when Klinger asked her if she was married or had a boyfriend.

Klinger was also sentenced to an additional three days in jail for a separate incident — driving drunk. His blood-alcohol level was .40, which is five times the legal limit.

Federal officials want to send a message about employing illegal aliens in the case of a fast food franchise that employed 56 illegal aliens at its restaurants.

Two executives and the franchisee for 11 McDonald’s restaurants in the Reno, NV area pleaded guilty to felony immigration charges stemming from raids last fall.

Mack Associates, Inc., pleaded guilty to two felony counts of encouraging an alien’s unlawful residence in the United States and aiding and abetting an alien to remain in the U.S.

Authorities charged that Mack Associates employed known illegal aliens and furnished them with names and Social Security numbers belonging to others.

Mack will pay $1 million in fines, the maximum allowed by law for the two violations. The company will also be on probation for one year.

The franchise’s former vice-president, Jimmy Moore, pleaded guilty to one felony count of inducting an illegal alien to remain in the U.S. Moore faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when sentenced.

Mack’s controller, Anntoinette Richmond, has also been charged with one misdemeanor count of continuing employment of an unauthorized alien.

The U.S. Attorney’s office in Nevada and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are using this case as a warning to other employers. “Companies and their managers who engage in such conduct are on notice that violations will be prosecuted and that the criminal penalties can be significant,” said U.S. Attorney for Nevada, Gregory Brower.

Among others facing charges: HR Managers

Since October 2007, ICE has made 937 criminal arrests in connection with worksite enforcement investigations.

Of those cases, 99 involve owners, managers, supervisors or human resources employees who face charges ranging from harboring to knowingly hiring illegal aliens.

During the same time period, ICE made more than 3,500 administrative arrests for immigration violations in connection with worksite investigations.

In FY 2007, ICE collected more than $31 million in criminal fines, restitution and civil judgments.

ICE was created in March 2003 by combining the law enforcement arms of the former Immigration and Naturalization Service and the former U.S. Customs Service to tackle immigration law violations.