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Man Receives Nine-Year Sentence in MJ Growing Case
Posted by FoM on October 21, 1999 at 18:28:22 PT
Source: SF Gate
A man described as a key player in a marijuana-growing ring was sentenced Thursday to nine years in federal prison and fined $2,000 for his role in the cultivation of hundreds of plants. 
Joseph Garcia, 57, the last of six defendants connected with the case, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David F. Levi. Prosecutors described Garcia as an ``equity partner'' in the marijuana-growing scheme, which was discovered in 1995 after a clerk at a drug store's photo-processing unit noticed that the film a customer had brought in contained images of indoor marijuana plants. A joint investigation by local and federal drug agents in El Dorado County resulted in several arrest warrants and the seizure of 1,100 marijuana plants. Garcia originally was scheduled to be sentenced in July 1998, but he fled before his court date. He was arrested this year after Sacramento police investigators saw him leaving another marijuana growing area. Garcia also faces a maximum sentence of five additional years and a $250,000 fine in a new indictment for his failure to appear at the July 1998 sentencing. Thursday, October 21, 1999 
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