FREDERICKTOWN MAN SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR GROWING POT PLANTS

A Fredericktown, Mo., man received two 10-year sentences this week for growing more than 1,000 marijuana plants on federal property, the U.S. attorney's office said.

James Paul Long, 45, had pleaded guilty to growing marijuana plants in the Mark Twain National Forest and using wires and shotguns for booby traps, assistant U.S. attorney Michael Price said.

Authorities discovered the marijuana patch in November 1999 while investigating a fire.

Three shotguns that would be set off by trip wires were also found.

The discovery led to an investigation that ended in Long's arrest in September.