Dec 092009
A suspected principal figure in a large Butte County medical marijuana fraud case will serve 270 days in jail and pay fines totaling $36,000, according to this Chico Enterprise-Record article.
Prosecutors alleged Matthew Robert Eubanks was one of 15 individuals involved in an elaborate scheme to use the Compassionate Use Act as a cover to illegally cultivate and sell medical marijuana locally. Jail sentences ranging from 90 to 180 days have been handed down to most of the defendants who had previously accepted a joint plea bargain, the E-R reports.
The alleged mastermind, Casey James Wilkins of Chico, on whose property many of the illegal gardens were planted, is serving a three-year prison term after admitting to a separate money laundering charge. Four others are either still awaiting sentencing or trial in Butte County Superior Court.
Most of the suspects were arrested in September 2008 after Butte County sheriff’s officers reportedly discovered the names of the same medical marijuana patients posted at six indoor and outdoor “collective” grow sites in Chico and the foothills around Butte Creek canyon, Cohasset and Concow.
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