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Canadian man, U.S. woman get prison for pot smuggling
Last Updated Mon, 29 Aug 2005 1807 EDT
CBC News
A Canadian man and an American woman were each sentenced to more than two years in prison Monday in Duluth, Minnesota, for trying to smuggle 375 kilograms of marijuana into the United States from Canada.
Koochiching County Attorney Jennifer Hasbargen said Gail Darwin, 62, who owned a home in northern Minnesota, and Joseph Heater, 65, a Canadian who owns a house in Ontario across the border from Darwin's home, were each sentenced to 27 and-a-half months in prison.
Last month, they pleaded guilty to possessing 375 kilograms of marijuana valued at $4 million U.S. Officials caught them this spring along the border with the drugs stuffed in a trailer.
Hasbargen said Minnesota state sentencing guidelines call for a four-year sentence, but it was reduced for various reasons including Darwin's health issues and Heater's former service in the Canadian air force.
Hasbargen said their relatively clean criminal records and their ages were considered during the sentencing. Darwin and Heater must serve two-thirds of their sentences, or about one and-a-half years each, before being eligible for parole.
The County Attorney said it was the largest drug seizure her office had ever prosecuted.
U.S. Border Patrol agents seized hydroponically grown B.C. Bud -- an expensive, high-grade form of marijuana -- after noticing sled tracks between the Darwin and Heater homes.
Law enforcement officers have said the heavily forested U.S.-Canada border in northern Minnesota has become a popular location for smuggling Canadian marijuana headed for markets in the U.S. upper midwest.
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