Crime & Safety

Scarsdale 'Pot Mom' Sentenced to Time Served

Andrea Sanderlin was in court Tuesday for sentencing.

SCARSDALE, NY - The Scarsdale woman who had a marijuana-growing operation in a Queens will not have to serve any more prison time.

Andrea Sanderlin, who recently said she had become devoutly religious and pleaded that she should be spared more prison, was sentenced Tuesday to time served, the Journal News said.

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Sanderlin will have to perform community service of 100 hours.

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

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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.”

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