Marijuana Dealer Sentenced to 2 Years
A man described as a San Fernando Valley distributor for a multimillion-dollar network of underground marijuana farms in the Antelope Valley and Arizona was sentenced Wednesday to two years in state prison.
Michael Kumar, 31, of Woodland Hills was sentenced by Lancaster Superior Court Judge Charles Peven after pleading guilty to a charge of conspiracy to sell marijuana, court officials said.
Kumar, one of 19 people arrested during a joint local and federal investigation in December, was not involved in the growing operation, authorities said. But he allegedly sold more than $1 million in marijuana a year produced by three underground farms.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators arrested Kumar in December during an undercover drug deal at a Castaic motel. They were led to him by evidence found during raids of indoor marijuana growing sites in the Antelope Valley and Arizona deserts, which were allegedly run by a group of construction contractors now awaiting trial in Arizona federal courts.
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