NEW YORK -- A suburban New York mom charged with growing thousands of marijuana plants worth millions of dollars is being released from prison. Andrea Sanderlin is being released on $500,000 bond. She pleaded not guilty last week in Brooklyn federal court. The charges sound like a real-life version of the Showtime series "Weeds," which chronicled a California woman's decision to grow pot to support her family. Sanderlin's attorney has said it was not a case of art imitating life. He says she's a mother of three children who should be presumed innocent. Federal prosecutors have compared the woman to a Colombian drug lord. Officials say a warehouse connected to Sanderlin had more than 2,800...
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