Bay Area property owner to serve 30 months for pot warehouse
The owner of a warehouse near the Port of Oakland was sentenced Friday to 30 months in prison for making his property available to a group of pot farmers.
A 2004 raid on the Oakland warehouse by the California Highway Patrol, which turned up nearly 2,400 marijuana plants being cultivated, led to the conviction of eight individuals. The defendants all claimed the marijuana was being grown for medicinal uses.
The owner of the warehouse, Thomas Grossi, 62, was convicted in January 2006 on a federal charge of making his warehouse available for the cultivation. The jury deadlocked on a similar charge involving another warehouse owned by Grossi.