MAN PLEADS GUILTY IN MARIJUANA CASE

OAKLAND -- An Alameda man pleaded guilty Wednesday to his role in the
cultivation of thousands of marijuana plants at a West Oakland warehouse.

Mario Pacetti, 33, declined to comment after entering his plea before U.S.
District Judge D. Lowell Jensen in Oakland. Jensen will sentence Pacetti on
June 3 on a charge of using a place for the manufacture of marijuana.

California Highway Patrol officers discovered the marijuana during a June
30 raid at 2638 Market St. in West Oakland.

Pacetti is the first of five defendants facing felony charges to plead
guilty. Two other defendants face misdemeanor charges of possession of
marijuana.

A federal grand jury indicted Pacetti on Thursday on another charge of
making a second location -- 2635 East 11th St. in East Oakland -- available
for marijuana growing.