KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) - A Great Falls man who pleaded guilty to growing marijuana on national forest land has been given a five-year deferred sentence.
The Daily Inter Lake reports (https://bit.ly/1rPNNAu ) that 25-year-old Skylar Wiegenstein was sentenced Wednesday on a felony charge of criminal manufacture of dangerous drugs.
Wiegenstein and his cousin, 27-year-old Smoky Alan Geldrich, had both pleaded guilty in the case earlier this year. They were accused of growing marijuana in buildings constructed on Flathead National Forest land in September 2013.
Court documents say a U.S. Forest Service special agent found the illegal structures and discovered dozens of marijuana plants inside.
Wiegenstein and Geldrich, who also received a five-year deferred sentence, have been ordered to take down the structures and restore the forest to its original condition.
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Information from: Daily Inter Lake, https://www.dailyinterlake.com
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