20 Year Sentence For New Jersey Man Convicted Of Growing Marijuana

[Jacob Redmond]

A West New York man has been sentenced to 20 years in state prison for growing large crops of marijuana inside two buildings in Newark, Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced Friday.

David Companioni, 32, was convicted on first-degree charges of operating a controlled dangerous substance production facility and second-degree possession with intent to distribute charges in Essex County Superior Court on Aug. 20.

State authorities said Companioni and co-defendant Aday Y. Fernandez, 34, were co-conspirators in a scheme to cultivate and maintain a marijuana growing operation at a Miller Street warehouse.

Authorities arrested both men in Feb. 2012 after investigators with the New Jersey State Police Drug Trafficking North Unit discovered more than 100 marijuana plants inside the warehouse and at a multi-family home on Summer Avenue.

Investigators executed a separate search warrant at Fernandez's residence in the 300 block of 54th Street in West New York, where they seized several pounds of marijuana and more than $42,000 in U.S. currency, authorities said.

Fernandez, also of West New York, pleaded guilty in April to charges of conspiracy and maintaining or operating a controlled dangerous substance production facility.

Attorneys for the state are recommending that Fernandez receive a sentence of seven years in state prison.

Fernandez is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 13.

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[Happy Hemper]

The poor fellows are lucky that they did not grow in Floriduh where just 25 plants will get you 30 years in a state prison.

 

[hempaz]

Ugly! Now, that's jumping the gun!

 

[stones55]

And someone who was the integral part of two murderers escaping from a New York prison that would not be taken alive and certainly had the potential to take more lives, got UP TO 7 years ! UP TO 7 years for orchestrating the escape of two murderers !

Just goes to show you the priorities of our legal and justice system. We'll lock people up and take away their freedom for an act that has no victims but we'll slap someone on the wrist that facilitates an escape of two murderers who certainly would murder again if given the chance.

Fukked up government we have here, isn't it ????

 

[Mrx99]

Yes, you are correct, how is it the supreme court in Canada found Cannabis to be a medicine that anyone is entitled to use as long as their Doctor recommends it? That is also the way it should be in the USA. If Obama had any balls he would legalize it as a medicine.