Crime & Safety

Scarsdale 'Pot Mom' Said She's Now Devout Christian

She is seeking mercy for her upcoming sentencing.

The woman from Scarsdale, facing sentencing for a marijuana-growing operation, said she has found religion.

Andrea Sanderlin pleaded guilty in October 2013 to a count of manufacturing and intending to distribute a controlled substance, according to lohud.com.

She now said she is a devout Christian and has asked for mercy for her upcoming sentencing.

Find out what's happening in Scarsdalefor free with the latest updates from Patch.

Sanderlin lived in a Saxon Woods Road home and was accused of growing and trying to sell more than 1,000 pot plants out of a warehouse in Queens.

At the time, then-U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said the Scarsdale resident “chose to inhabit the shadowy underworld of large-scale drug dealers, using drug procees to maintain her family’s facade of upper middle class stability.”

Find out what's happening in Scarsdalefor free with the latest updates from Patch.

For the complete lohud.com article, go here.

Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.