Thread: ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT PLEADS GUILTY TO 3,700-PLANT MARIJUANA GROW IN NATIONAL PARK

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT PLEADS GUILTY TO 3,700-PLANT MARIJUANA GROW IN NATIONAL PARK

by DANIEL NUSSBAUM
29 Jan 201561

A man accused of using the cover of the Plumas National Forest to grow more than 3,700 marijuana plants changed his plea to guilty at a hearing Wednesday, according to court documents.

Alejandro Soto-Silva, 22, a man residing in the country illegally, was charged with conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, manufacture of marijuana, and depredation of public lands and resources, according to court documents.

Soto-Silva was arrested in July 2014 after U.S. Forest Service agents found a massive marijuana grow operation containing 3,724 plants near the Soda Creek drainage area of the national park.

“Law enforcement observed irrigation piping running from a water source to man-made reservoirs, used to water thousands of marijuana plants under cultivation,” authorities said in a statement.

Authorities told the Reno Gazette-Journal that the damage to the federal park is estimated to have been $9,500.

The charge of depredation of public land and resources carries its own maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Sentencing has been set for April 15. Soto-Silva faces up to 20 years in prison, a $1 million fine, and deportation to Mexico.

http://www.breitbart.com/california/...national-park/

He should have been deported long before he damaged our forest and planted 3700 plants. If ICE and DHS and our Presidents were doing their jobs, this wouldn't have happened because he wouldn't have been here, and to think, if he hadn't been caught growing his plants in a National Forest, probably by Park Rangers, he would be a DREAMER with a virtual permanent pass to stay and become a citizen.