S.C. Man Sentenced to Five Years For Growing Marijuana in National Forest

[BluntKilla]

A South Carolina man is facing five years in federal prison for cultivating a marijuana garden in the Nantahala National Forest in Macon County.

Timothy Olin Bennett of Walterboro, South Carolina, was sentenced Tuesday at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Asheville before Judge Lacy Thornburg.

He had pleaded guilty earlier to one count of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana.

The U.S. attorney's office says Bennett, James Patrick Davis and Josh Lee Flynn maintained a marijuana garden inside the national forest between October 2001 and November 2002. Authorities say the men were allegedly planning to cultivate it for a third growing season in 2003.

Bennett was indicted in February.

Newshawk: BlunKilla - 420 Magazine
Source: News 14 Carolina
Pubdate: 10/4/2006
Copyright: 2006 TWEAN Newschannel of Raleigh
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[BluntKilla]

this is absurd, 5 years for growing weed? it was kinda stupid to grow in a national park but 5 yrs????

 

[Cherma]

Yes that's right ladies and gents a 5 years term for hiking in the Federal Foerst Reserves and planting some pot...Ironic that it is, we the People, have voted in the people that make the laws...We also pay taxes for our Park Lands, so these guys are just getting a double tax whamy. They get the smoke taken from the Feds / State Authorities, and then get to be a customer of a 3 hots and a cot Iron Bar Hotel, at the Taxpayers expense of
$ 65,000.00 per year, that is roughly equivelent to a Hotel Room costing the American Taxpayer $ 178.08 per day per person. After 5 years that roughly comes to 2 people in a State Prison $ 649,992.00. What a crying shame.

 

[hardhat22]

Do sentencing guidlines allow them to give us more time for growing on federal land as oppossed to private land?Kinda like getting caught selling within 500ft. of a school for example as oppossed to miles away?peace:

 

[fanman]

that is bull cause the other guy with 3 houses of plants and bud worth $2 mil. might only get 3 yrs in the pen. charges for weed are ridiculous!!!