Steven John Wick, 26, the owner and operator of The Health Collective on Raymond Way in Lake Forest, pleaded guilty to unlawful sale of marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale, and admitted to sentencing enhancements of committing a crime while he was free on bail in a separate case.
He was sentenced to three years in state prison, according to a news release from the Orange County District Attorney's Office.
As a term of Wick's plea agreement, he is also expected to plead guilty next week to possession of marijuana for sale and possessing more than $25,000 obtained through illegal drug sales in his other 2009 Orange County case, according to District Attorney spokeswoman Farrah Emami.
Wick, of Rancho Santa Margarita, will receive an additional one-year term in prison on that case, Emami said.
Marilyn Geneva Manuel, 29, a manager at The Health Collective, pleaded guilty to one felony count of possession for sale of marijuana and was sentenced to one year in jail and three years of formal probation, prosecutors said. Manuel's jail sentence could be dismissed if she successfully completes probation.
A third defendant, Tara Elizabeth Sorenson, 22, is charged with three felony counts of the sale of marijuana and one felony count of possession of marijuana for sale in the same case. She is free on $100,000 bail pending a preliminary hearing on April 29. Sorenson, also of Rancho Santa Margarita, could get six years and eight months in prison if convicted.
They were accused of selling marijuana to customers with a physician's recommendation but without any relationship to those customers and without requiring or requesting them to participate in collectively or cooperatively cultivating marijuana in violation of state law, Emami said.
Source: The Orange County Register
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