A Kansas City man was sentenced in federal court on March 12 for his role in a marijuana-growing operation in Daviess County, according to Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.
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Jhanmay Molina-Perez, 30, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner to 11 years and three months in federal prison without parole.
On July 25, 2008, Molina-Perez was convicted by a federal jury of participating in a conspiracy to manufacture marijuana from May 1 to Oct. 31, 2006. He was also found guilty of managing the property that was used for growing marijuana.
On Sept. 6, 2006, a neighbor of the 22-acre property rented by Molina-Perez, which is located near Coffey, heard gunshots and discovered the bodies of two men who had been fatally shot. When law enforcement officers arrived at the scene they discovered a field behind the residence that was partially planted in corn in an attempt to conceal more than 3,000 marijuana plants, ranging from six to 12 feet tall.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Gregg R. Coonrod and Patrick D. Daly. It was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Metro Drug Task Force, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the Daviess County Sheriff’s Department, the Cameron Police Department, the St. Joseph Police Department, NITRO (the Northwest Missouri Interagency Team Response Operation), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Kansas City Police Department, with assistance from the Daviess County Prosecutor’s Office.