Almost 400 pounds of marijuana were seized from her boyfriend's properties in 2011, but a Dakota County judge said there was no evidence she knew about the operation.
A Faribault woman is off the hook for the 391 pounds of marijuana seized by police from her boyfriend's Inver Grove Heights properties in 2011. A Dakota County judge dismissed charges Tuesday against Holly Bignell, 30, a Faribault woman known at the time of the bust as Holly Swenson, the Pioneer Press is reporting. District Judge Patrice Sutherland said there was "no evidence she even knew about the alleged marijuana operation," according to the paper. Bignell's boyfriend at the time, Scott Bradley Cunningham, 43, and Brian Lee Speldrick, 53, both of Inver Grove Heights, are still being charged with felony drug possession and sale. On Wednesday, they declined a plea agreement that would have given Cunningham more than 16 years behind bars …
Three Dakota County residents were arrested in a 2011 drug bust that netted 391 pounds of marijuana.
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If convicted of the charges against them, each defendant could receive up to 60 years in prison and a $2 million fine.
Assistant Dakota County Attorney Kevin Golden filed a Notice of Intent Monday afternoon seeking the maximum statutory sentence for three Dakota County residents arrested in a November drug bust that netted 391 pounds of marijuana. Inver Grove Heights residents Scott Bradley Cunningham, 42, and Brian Lee Speldrick, 52, alongside Rosemount's Holly Joann Swenson, 28, and Jerilyn Reis, 41, of Kiester (Minn.) were all charged with first-degree drug possession with intent to sell and first-degree drug possession. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine. In a two-page motion, Golden cited "severe aggravating factors" as justification for asking for an upward departure from the Minnesota Sentencing …
mercedez lenz
3:54 pm on Thursday, April 11, 2013
Are you serious that's bullshit however the amount its shouldn't its still should be treated like any case why the hell would they.want to get a upward departure its weed plain and simple so why do they want to crucify them isn't 30 enuff? Wow more ›