By Annie Ma Published 9:19 pm, Friday, May 11, 2018 Photo: Yellow Dog Productions / Getty Image Image 1of/1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 A man who pleaded guilty to smuggling thousands of pounds of marijuana from Thailand to Santa Rosa in the 1980s was sentenced in federal court in San Francisco to three years in prison, officials said. A man who pleaded guilty to smuggling thousands of pounds of marijuana from Thailand to Santa Rosa in the 1980s was sentenced in federal court in San Francisco to three years in prison, officials said. Photo: Yellow Dog Productions / Getty Image After decades on the lam, man sentenced in Santa Rosa pot-smuggling case 1 / 1 Back to Gallery A man who spent three decades on the lam, most of the time with a fake identity in Australia, pleaded guilty to smuggling thousands of pounds of marijuana from Thailand to Santa Rosa in the 1980s and was sentenced Friday in federal court in San Francisco to three years in prison, officials said. In a plea agreement, Peyton Erwin Eidson admitted being part of a conspiracy to import 6,700 pounds of marijuana from Thailand in the mid-1980s. His role involved traveling to Thailand to arrange for the load and tracking distribution once the drugs made it into the United States. LATEST SFGATE VIDEOS Now Playing: Now Playing Lenticular cloud over Lake Tahoe San Francisco Chronicle A trash can burns in San Francisco San Francisco Chronicle Be My Voice Manjula Varghese Beloved SF businesses… [Read full story]
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