United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner
Eastern District of California
Mexican National Sentenced for Marijuana Grow
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | CONTACT: Lauren Horwood |
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July 28, 2011 |
PHONE: (916) 554-2706 |
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www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae |
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Docket #: 2:10-cr-370-MCE |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that today United States District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. sentenced Nemesio Reyna Ortega, 20, of Michoacan, Mexico, to three years and one month in prison for cultivation of marijuana on public land.
According to court documents, on August 6, 2010, law enforcement agents raided a marijuana grow in a rural area of Tehama County and arrested Ortega and co-defendant Jose Pelayo, 37, also from Mexico. Agents found 5,344 marijuana plants at the grow site. Jose Pelayo, pleaded guilty and is scheduled to be sentenced on August 25, 2011.
This case is the product of an investigation by the United States Forest Service, Tehama County Sheriff's Office, and the California Department of Fish and Game. Assistant United States Attorney Michael D. Anderson is prosecuting the case.
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