22 years for pot farmer with $6M crop (NorthWest Cable News)

10 March 2010, 9:19 am

MEDFORD, Ore. -- A 54-year-old man has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for growing marijuana valued at about $6 million on his rural property in southern Oregon. The U.S. attorney's office says Henry X. Villa facilitated the recruitment of illegal aliens from California to tend the nearly 9,000 marijuana plants on his 160-acre Wolf Creek property. He was sentenced Monday by U.S ...... Read More »

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