{"id":9397,"date":"2021-07-08T01:18:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T01:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/07\/07\/massachusetts-men-sentenced-for-home-invasion-and-attempted-pot-heist\/135346\/"},"modified":"2021-07-08T01:18:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T01:18:12","slug":"massachusetts-men-sentenced-for-home-invasion-and-attempted-pot-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/massachusetts-men-sentenced-for-home-invasion-and-attempted-pot-heist\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts men sentenced for home invasion and attempted pot heist"},"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\/massachusetts-men-sentenced-for-home-invasion-and-attempted-pot-heist\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Marijuana_Legalization_Landscape_27570-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/massachusetts-men-sentenced-for-home-invasion-and-attempted-pot-heist.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/massachusetts-men-sentenced-for-home-invasion-and-attempted-pot-heist-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/07\/07\/massachusetts-men-sentenced-for-home-invasion-and-attempted-pot-heist\/135346\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"135346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two Massachusetts men were sentenced on Tuesday for trying to hold up a person selling marijuana in Maine, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Chief U.S. District Judge Jon D. Levy sentenced Eric Mercardo, 33, of Lowell, to 16 years in prison and four years of supervised release and Steven Hardy, 33, of Maynard, to 15\u00bd years in prison and four years of supervised release. Both men also were ordered to pay the victim $3,740 in restitution.<\/p>\n<p>They were charged with interfering with commerce through acts of violence, conspiring to do so and discharging a firearm during the acts of violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2021\/07\/07\/massachusetts-men-sentenced-for-trying-to-hold-up-a-marijuana-seller\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Massachusetts men were sentenced on Tuesday for trying to hold up a person selling marijuana in Maine, authorities said. Chief U.S. District Judge Jon D. Levy sentenced Eric Mercardo, 33, of Lowell, to 16 years in prison and four years of supervised release and Steven Hardy, 33, of Maynard, to 15\u00bd years in prison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,528,8232,9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[2864,3102,8234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397"}],"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=9397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}