{"id":8871,"date":"2019-12-07T02:44:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T02:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=3787366"},"modified":"2019-12-07T02:44:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T02:44:46","slug":"aurora-couple-convicted-in-massive-black-market-cannabis-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/aurora-couple-convicted-in-massive-black-market-cannabis-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora couple convicted in massive black market cannabis grow"},"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\/aurora-couple-convicted-in-massive-black-market-cannabis-grow\/\" 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><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aurora-couple-convicted-in-massive-black-market-cannabis-grow.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/12\/06\/aurora-couple-convicted-marijuana-black-market\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dp-news-marijuana+%28Denver+Post%3A+News%3A+Marijuana%29&amp;utm_content=Google+UK#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"3787366\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Aurora couple has been found guilty by a federal jury in Denver of growing marijuana in a massive black market operation.<\/p>\n<p>Huanyu Yan, 54, and wife, You Lan Xiang, 50, were found guilty after a four-day trial before U.S. District Judge Raymond P. Moore, the U.S. attorney\u2019s office in Colorado announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Both defendants were remanded into custody pending sentencing, which is scheduled for Feb. 24, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 18, 2018, the Drug Enforcement Administration, North Metro Drug Task Force and Aurora police executed a federal search warrant at 20050 E. Doane Drive in Aurora, according to the release. Investigators found a large-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/10\/10\/marijuana-raids-aurora\/\">illicit marijuana grow<\/a> in the basement, with 878 marijuana plants. Also in the basement was almost 10 pounds of processed marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants were convicted of conspiracy to manufacture and possess with intent to distribute 100 or more marijuana plants, possessing with intent to distribute 100 or more marijuana plants, and using and maintaining a drug-involved premises. They face mandatory minimum five-year prison sentences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important verdict for the people of Colorado, who\u2019ve been overrun by black market marijuana,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn, in the release. \u201cThis verdict sends a strong signal to anyone growing black market marijuana in Colorado that they can\u2019t hide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>An Aurora couple has been found guilty, by a federal jury in Denver, of marijuana cultivation in a massive black market cannabis grow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7977,52,8219,6812,376,233,6813,77,6814,6815,9,5019,1,3,6965,61,1736],"tags":[7978,2632,40,6817,2954,2811,6818,2655,6819,6820,5022,6968],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871"}],"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=8871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}