Sentencing in E. Oregon pot plantation case

PORTLAND— A Roosevelt, Wash., man who was charged with helping operate a marijuana plantation in Oregon’s Grant County is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in federal court in Portland.

The Oregonian reports Sergio Hernandez-Escalera will probably be deported to Mexico after his prison term.
He pleaded guilty to manufacturing more than 1,000 marijuana plants.
Two other men pleaded guilty in June and are awaiting sentencing.
A drug team raided the plantation in northeast Oregon in August 2009 and seized about 23,000 plants.


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