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Alaska man gets 5 years for marijuana operation
Associated Press - December 12, 2009 2:44 PM ET
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - A Fairbanks man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after he was convicted of running a large-scale marijuana growing operation reportedly worth $2 million a year.
Federal prosecutors said they reached a plea deal with 59-year-old John Tobe Larson last September.
Larson said Friday he was concerned he may not be able to pay back a $700,000 loan he took out on a pub in Ireland that has been in his family for 300 years.
His attorney said Larson had to forfeit nearly $1 million worth of property, including a plane, mining equipment and gold nuggets.
The extensive marijuana growing operation at Larson's Eureka Gold Mine claim was discovered last June after Larson offered a former employee a job tending more than 600 marijuana plants.
Associated Press - December 12, 2009 2:44 PM ET
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - A Fairbanks man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after he was convicted of running a large-scale marijuana growing operation reportedly worth $2 million a year.
Federal prosecutors said they reached a plea deal with 59-year-old John Tobe Larson last September.
Larson said Friday he was concerned he may not be able to pay back a $700,000 loan he took out on a pub in Ireland that has been in his family for 300 years.
His attorney said Larson had to forfeit nearly $1 million worth of property, including a plane, mining equipment and gold nuggets.
The extensive marijuana growing operation at Larson's Eureka Gold Mine claim was discovered last June after Larson offered a former employee a job tending more than 600 marijuana plants.
