Pot Growers Going To Prison
AP-Two Mexican nationals have been sentenced to federal prison for tending a remote illegal marijuana growing site in the Snoqualmie National Forest.
Fernando Chavez-Lopez was sentenced to five years and Socorro Trujillo-Silva to seven years by U.S. District Judge Lonny R. Suko.
Court records say that Chavez and Trujillo were caught July 19, 2011, tending a marijuana grow in excess of 5,000 plants near Rimrock Lake.
The pair were caught asleep at dawn by a reconnaissance team of local and federal agents. A loaded 9 mm pistol was found next to Trujillo's sleeping bag.
Trujillo said he was recruited in Yakima and promised a cut of the harvest profits.
Both men face deportation upon release.