U.S. District Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz agreed with the recommendation from federal prosecutors that James Stacy, 46, should not be sent to jail. But in a surprise move, the judge ordered Stacy to serve only two years of supervised release, a year less than federal prosecutors recommended and Stacy had expected.
Stacy had faced nine federal drug charges arising from a raid of his now-shuttered Vista dispensary, Movement in Action. In October, he pleaded guilty to a single charge: manufacturing marijuana.
"My intent was never to break the law. My intent was to help people," Stacy said after the hearing in Moskowitz's federal courtroom in San Diego.
Stacy's medical marijuana shop on South Santa Fe Avenue was one of 14 San Diego County shops raided by local and federal authorities Sept. 9, 2009.
Of the 30 people arrested during the raids, county prosecutors charged only one person, a San Diego resident. Federal prosecutors charged two people: Stacy and Joseph Nunes, who ran a San Diego pot shop for medical patients. Nunes eventually pleaded guilty.
Source: North County Times
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