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Date: 12-09-2020
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Case Number: 6:19-cr-00538-AA
Judge: Ann L. Aiken
Court: United States District Court for the District of Oregon (Lane County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office, Eugene, Oregon
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Description: Eugene, Oregon marijuana grower criminal defense lawyer represented defendant, Sean Paul Wyrsch, age 32, who was charged with running an illicit Butane Honey Oil (BHO) extraction lab on rural Bend property,
According to court documents, Wyrsch and his brother created a vertical operation growing marijuana, manufacturing BHO and distributing it in other states for significant profit. On March 27, 2018, an Oregon State Police trooper stopped Jacob Robe for a traffic violation near Klamath Falls, Oregon. The officer recognized signs of drug trafficking and eventually located more than $20,000 in cash, BHO, and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
The Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team had previously received information regarding defendant and his brothers having a BHO lab and selling BHO in other states, and detectives served a search warrant on the brothers’ rural property in Bend, Oregon. Also found were freezers with marijuana, drying racks with sheets of BHO and jars with their logo “THE BHOys.”
In an unattached two-story structure approximately 179 large, mature, marijuana plants were located along with around 280 starter plants. Law enforcement located an indoor marijuana grow with hundreds of plants, a closed-loop BHO lab, 18 pounds of BHO, 200 pounds of marijuana and thirteen firearms..
On November 25, 2019 Wyrsch was charged by information, and on January 29, 2020 pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana.
The Drug Enforcement Administration, Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team and Oregon State Police investigated this case. It was prosecuted by Jeffrey S. Sweet, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, and the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office.
21:841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C), 846 Conspiracy to Manufacture and Distribute Marijuana; Forfeiture Allegation
Outcome: Sean Paul Wyrsch, 32 years old, was sentenced to 3 years in federal prison and 3 years’ supervised release. This sentencing follows the sentencing of his brother and co-defendant Jacob Genaro Robe, on October 27, 2020, who also received a sentence of three years imprisonment.
ENTENCING DATE: 12/3/2020; IMPRISONMENT: Thirty-Six (36) months; SUPERVISED RELEASE: Three (3) years; SPECIAL ASSESSMENT: $100.00
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