Pubdate: Thu, 17 Feb 2005
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
Section: Page B3
Copyright: 2005 Hearst Communications Inc.
Contact:  http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/388
Author: Henry K. Lee
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)

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.
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