Plant trimmer on $10M Daviess Co. marijuana farm sentenced to prison
KANSAS CITY A Mexican national who has been deported seven times after illegally entering the United States was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a Daviess County, Missouri, marijuana-growing operation where law enforcement officers seized nearly $10 million worth of plants, according to the United State’s Attorney.
Sergio Medina-Perez, 47, of El Monte, California, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Greg Kays to six years in federal prison without parole. This federal sentence must be served consecutively to any sentence imposed as a result of his violation of probation in an unrelated California case. Medina-Perez pleaded guilty in California to being a felon in possession of a firearm, cultivating marijuana and resisting arrest for a marijuana grow operation in Shasta County, Calif. He received a suspended imposition of sentence and was placed on three years’ probation, but indicted eight m
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From some weird reason that doesn t make any sense, local mainstream media is downplaying the alleged (and convicted) misdeeds of a Mexican dude who worked at the behest of drug dealers.
Here s a very forgiving quote from their opening line . . . A man who played a minimal role in the operation of a multi-million dollar marijuana farm in northwestern Missouri has been sentenced to six years in prison. Sergio Medina-Perez was a plant trimmer at the farm, a criminal grow site that federal authorities estimated to have nearly $10 million worth of drugs when it was found three years ago.