MEDFORD, Ore. -- A 54-year-old man has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for growing marijuana valued at about $6 million on his rural property in southern Oregon.
The U.S. attorney's office says Henry X. Villa facilitated the recruitment of illegal aliens from California to tend the nearly 9,000 marijuana plants on his 160-acre Wolf Creek property. He was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Owen Panner in Medford.
A multi-agency drug team raided the farm in the summer of 2007 and found three armed illegal aliens. Villa was connected to the grow by cell phone records and local equipment purchases.
He was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture and manufacture of marijuana.
