Marijuana mastermind gets federal prison term
MEDFORD — A Wolf Creek man has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for masterminding a large-scale marijuana garden staffed by armed illegal immigrants he recruited from California.
Henry Xavier Villa, 54, was sentenced Monday in Medford’s U.S. District Court for growing 8,918 marijuana plants on his 160-acre property in Wolf Creek. The property also was seized by the federal government in a forfeiture action.
Drug Enforcement Administration investigators determined Villa’s crop was valued at approximately $6 million, according to a press release from prosecuting U.S. Attorney Judith R. Harper.
“Like several marijuana grows we’ve encountered, there was millions of dollars involved,” Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters said Tuesday.
The case began in 2007 when DEA agents, with help from several local law enforcement agencies, including the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and Ashland police, raided Villa’s property.
They encountered three illegal immigrants residing on the property who helped tend the marijuana garden.
“These grows are very labor-intensive,” Winters said. “It takes more than one person to handle a grow of 9,000 mature plants.”
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