One Pleads Guilty and Two Are Sentenced for Marijuana-Growing Operations in the Sequoia National Forest
(WorldNews Environment)

FRESNO, Calif. - One defendant pleaded guilty and two others were sentenced today for their involvement in large-scale marijuana cultivation operations in the Sequoia National Forest, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Guilty Plea to Cultivation Conspiracy in National Forest (1:16-cr-106 LJO) Abel Toledo-Villa, 35, of Mexico, pleaded guilty to conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute 3,850 plants found in the Sequoia National Forest in Kern County. In pleading guilty, Toledo acknowledged that he had left the area after law enforcement agents entered the grow site. He was later found in a vehicle that...