Activist is indicted over 4,116 pot plants

A federal grand jury has indicted marijuana activist Todd McCormick on
charges of growing 4,116 pot plants in a rented BelAir mansion known as
"The Castle," prosecutors said Tuesday.

The onesentence indictment also charges suspected accomplice Kiril
N.Dyjine with two counts of growing marijuana. No indictments were returned
against Renee Danielle Bojo and Aleksandra Evanguedlidi, arrested during
the same July 29 raid.

Defense attorneys had requested in August that federal prosecutors postpone
an indictment, arguing that McCormick was acting within bounds of
proposition 215, a voterapproved state law that allows medicinal marijuana
use.

McCormick, 27, has had a rare cancer since childhood.