10-YEAR PRISON TERM FOR MARIJUANA GROWER

A Humboldt County marijuana grower has been sentenced to 10 years in
federal prison, prosecutors say.

Timothy Dellas, 51, of Manila, west of Arcata, who was convicted by a
jury in May of growing and possessing marijuana with the intent to
distribute it, was sentenced Friday.

U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in San Francisco gave him the
minimum term required by federal law for a manager in a growing
operation involving more than 1,000 marijuana plants. Agents found
more than 5,000 plants and an indoor growing system in buildings at a
home in a rural area of southern Humboldt County where Dellas was
arrested, prosecutors said.

One document found in Dellas' truck estimated receipts from marijuana
sales at more than $1 million, authorities said.