Guilty pleas in major pot grow |
| June 22, 2012 |
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Sentencing has been set for three men who
entered guilty pleas to federal charges stemming
from a major marijuana growing operation in the
Paradise Valley area that was busted by the Boundary
County Sheriff's Office last summer. The operation took place from 2004 to 2011 on property owned by Robert Wayne Baucum, 56, Scio, Oregon. He and partner Ronald Clifford Underwood, 55, Albany, Oregon, pled guilty to drug conspiracy charges last week in federal court in Coeur d'Alene. Co-conspirator Raymond Earl Hogle, 50, also of Albany, pled guilty in April. Sentencing for the three has been set for July 17. Two other defendants in the case, Charles Goodenow, Willow, Alaska, and Justin Egnar, Springfield, Oregon, are scheduled to go to trial on the same day their three alleged partners are sentenced. |