{"id":9239,"date":"2020-07-18T01:46:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T01:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=4173109"},"modified":"2020-07-18T01:46:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T01:46:30","slug":"commerce-city-man-sentenced-to-federal-prison-for-illegal-marijuana-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/commerce-city-man-sentenced-to-federal-prison-for-illegal-marijuana-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Commerce City man sentenced to federal prison for illegal marijuana 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\/commerce-city-man-sentenced-to-federal-prison-for-illegal-marijuana-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\/2020\/07\/commerce-city-man-sentenced-to-federal-prison-for-illegal-marijuana-grow.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/07\/17\/commerce-city-man-sentenced-illegal-marijuana-grow\/?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=\"4173109\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Commerce City man has been sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for illegal cultivation of marijuana in a residence.<\/p>\n<p>Zhiming Wang, 26, a Chinese national and a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., was also sentenced Friday to three years of supervised release following his prison term, according to a U.S. Attorney Office, District of Colorado news release.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>On Jan. 31, 2019, investigators with the Drug Enforcement Agency and local law enforcement found 809 marijuana plants, at various stages of growth, in Wang\u2019s home. About 1\/2 pound of finished marijuana product was found in the residence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cultivation of marijuana is a violation of federal law,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn in the release. \u201cMr. Wang grew marijuana in a residential neighborhood without concern for the consequences.\u00a0 He was caught and is now paying the price.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wang appeared at the sentencing hearing free on bond, and was ordered to report to a facility designated by the Bureau of Prisons by August 21, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>A Commerce City man has been sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for illegal cultivation of marijuana in a residence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6812,7141,7898,6813,77,6814,9,5019,1,3,6965,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6817,7142,7906,6818,2655,6819,5022,6968],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239"}],"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=9239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}