{"id":8237,"date":"2018-04-28T02:21:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T02:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=3034681&amp;preview_id=3034681"},"modified":"2018-04-28T02:21:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T02:21:23","slug":"kansas-man-sentenced-in-3-million-marijuana-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/kansas-man-sentenced-in-3-million-marijuana-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas man sentenced in $3 million marijuana conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/kansas-man-sentenced-in-3-million-marijuana-conspiracy\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2922484\"><img class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/kansas-man-sentenced-in-3-million-marijuana-conspiracy\" alt=\"A marijuana plant in Denver photographed on March 3, 2014.\" width=\"810\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<p>John Leyba, The Denver Post<\/p>\n<p>A marijuana plant in Denver photographed on March 3, 2014.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 A Kansas man was sentenced to five years in prison without parole for his role in a conspiracy to distribute $3 million worth of marijuana in the Kansas City metro region.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say 29-year-old Justin Polson of Overland Park was sentenced Thursday and ordered to forfeit $1.5 million to the government.<\/p>\n<p>Polson pleaded guilty in September to conspiracy to distribute marijuana and participating in a money-laundering scheme.<\/p>\n<p>His co-defendant, 38-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/03\/07\/james-mack-colorado-shipped-marijuana-kansas-city\/\">James Mack<\/a>, of Westminster, Colorado, was given the same sentence last month on the same charges and also ordered to forfeit $1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Mack mailed marijuana in five-gallon plastic buckets to Polson between September 2012 and May 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Polson deposited about $3 million into Mack\u2019s bank account, in amounts below $10,000 to avoid reporting requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>A Kansas man was sentenced to five years in prison without parole for his role in a conspiracy to distribute $3 million worth of marijuana in the Kansas City metro region. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6812,6813,77,6814,9,5019,7700,7644,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6817,6818,2655,6819,5022,7701,7647],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}