Man Sentenced on Federal Marijuana, Money Laundering Charges

Jeffrey Traverse, 39, of Hinsdale was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on federal charges of conspiring to distribute marijuana, and conspiring to engage in money laundering, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith, according to a press statement.

The court imposed a term of 15 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release.

Beginning around February of 2012, and continuing through the end of 2013, an individual in California grew, and regularly shipped, quantities of marijuana by mail to several individuals in Vermont and New Hampshire, one of whom was Traverse. To disguise the illicit source of the funds accrued from marijuana sales, Traverse agreed to deposit the cash into a business bank account held personally by the individual in California, to create the impression that the deposited funds derived from a legitimate business enterprise.

This prosecution arose from an investigation by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the Keene, New Hampshire Police Department.