Eureka man sentenced to 7 years for marijuana cultivation
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A Eureka man was sentenced Friday to seven years and three months in prison and ordered to pay $17,000 in restitution for conspiring to manufacture and possess with intent to distribute marijuana and for depredation of public lands and resources, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
According to court documents, Arturo Alcazar-Tapia, 22, and his brother, Isidro Alcazar?Tapia, 26, both of Eureka, conspired to grow more than 20,000 marijuana plants at two sites in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Trinity County.
The marijuana was packaged for distribution at a house in Eureka. On August 4, 2014, law enforcement executed a search warrant at the Alcazar-Tapia home in Eureka and found 33 pounds of processed marijuana divided into one-pound packages and more than $6,000 in cash.
At a cultivation site at Big French Creek, agents located and destroyed approximately 7,980 marijuana plants and arrested co?defendant Ricky Martin Huerta,...
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