As expected, it’s a five-year/five-month federal drug sentence for a Nevada City woman, who is now 64 years old. It culminates a five-year-old case involving Patricia Albright, her son, and other people. Prosecutors say between 2008 and 2010 the group manufactured marijuana on two properties Albright owned, one near Nevada City and one near Georgetown. The crop was regularly shipped out of state under fake names and addresses. But federal prosecutor Mike Beckwith says Albright’s history goes even further back, to a 2002 arrest…

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Albright pleaded guilty in July. Court documents say Albright structured 21 transactions, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, at six different financial institutions over three days, so she could avoid cash deposit requirements. Beckwith also quoted one of a number of e-mail exchanges between Albright and one of her partners that he says portrays her as a cold businesswoman…

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Over 41-hundred plants were seized at both properties, as well as numerous firearms.