Navajo man pleads guilty for illegal marijuana grow operations

Albuquerque, nm – A man of Navajo pleaded guilty to 15 counts resulting from allegations according to which he had directed illegal marijuana culture operations in the New Mexico and in the Navajo nation, pesticide in the United States clandestinely and employed workers who were in the country illegally.

Federal prosecutors announced on Tuesday the adviser on advocacy, saying that Dineh Benally admitted to having directed what they described as a vast ring of culture and distribution which had lasted several years, operated the workers and polluted the San Juan river on tribal lands.

An indictment appointing Benally, his father and a trading partner were not sealed earlier this year after the authorities made a descent into a rural area east of Albuquerque. The document indicates that the company involved the construction of more than 1,100 cannabis greenhouses, the solicitation of Chinese investors to finance the effort and the recruitment of Chinese workers to cultivate crops.

Benally, 48, first made the headlines when her operations in the northwest new mexical were attacked by the federal authorities in 2020. The Navajo Ministry of Justice continued him, which led to an order of the court interrupting these operations.

A group of Chinese workers also continued Benally and its associates. The workers said they had been attracted to new-mexic and forced to work long hours in the marijuana cup in the Navajo nation, where the crop of the plant is illegal.

Federal authorities have said that around 260,000 marijuana plants and 60,000 pounds of marijuana transformed had been confiscated from the operation in the north of the new mexico while the subsequent raid in farms near Estancia discovered around 8,500 pounds (3,855 kilograms) of marijuana, $ 35,000 for illegal pesticides, pesticides illegal, illegal vestids, firefighters.

Federal prosecutors said Benally risks 15 years compulsory and up to life prison during his conviction.