Kansas City News Blog

A federal judge sentenced a Kansas City man today to 11 years and three months in federal prison for running a marijuana-growing operation in Daviess County, which is holy land but I don't think Joseph Smith was growing weed.

In July, a federal jury found 30-year-old Jhanmay Molina-Perez guilty of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana between May 1 to October 31, 2006, on a 22-acre property that he was renting near Cameron. The operation went south after a neighbor heard gunshots and found a couple of dead bodies. Things got real bad for Molina-Perez when police searched the scene and uncovered a field with more than 3,000 marijuana plants standing between 6- and 12-feet tall.

The news of this bust is sure to piss off 4:20 advocates Shannin and Parks.