A Placer County woman who forfeited cash and luxury goods for her role in an illegal marijuana distribution scheme was sentenced in federal court in Sacramento on Tuesday to seven years in prison.

Myra Boleche Minks pleaded guilty in March to running a scheme with two co-conspirators out of a house in Loomis that involved transporting cannabis to other states including Nevada, Texas and Georgia. The weed was either stuffed in suitcases and carried on airline flights by couriers, or packaged in boxes and sent via shipping companies.

In addition to helping to run the scheme, Minks acknowledged in her plea agreement that she had impersonated government officials on numerous occasions. Once, she posed as a DEA agent to get information on two people who had been shot on a freeway in Oakland

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