SAN DIEGO — Former Vancouver pastor John Bishop is scheduled to be sentenced this morning in his marijuana smuggling case in U.S. District Court in San Diego. Sentencing for Bishop, 55, has been set over six times since May, as the prosecution and defense readied their sentencing recommendations. Bishop pleaded guilty in February to a federal charge of unlawful importation of a controlled substance-marijuana — a felony that carries a mandatory minimum five-year prison sentence — for attempting to smuggle nearly 300 pounds of marijuana into the United States from Mexico. The story of how the pastor of Vancouver’s Living Hope Church ended up in federal custody was detailed in a series of Columbian stories published in September, the week before Bishop was last supposed to be sentenced. But that sentencing date, which turned into a contested two-day hearing, was postponed in order to give him time to provide another interview to authorities.
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Jessica Prokop, The Columbian
Tue, 11/20/2018 - 8:25am
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