A Mexican citizen, busted last year while tending an illicit pot farm inside the Mendocino National Forest, was sentenced Thursday to five years in federal prison, prosecutors said.
Ivan Villafana, 25, was also ordered to pay $14,000 in fines. Authorities say the site, in the Ice Springs area in Glenn County, was marked by felled trees, pesticides, herbicides and tubes delivering water from a nearby stream.
Villafana was armed with a revolver when he was arrested.