The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON - Despite efforts by the Columbia County prosecutor to get all three pot-growing suspects half a decade in jail each, only one of the Mexican nationals arrested this summer faces such a term in federal prison.

The other two are expected to serve only half a year in county jail before facing deportation by federal immigration authorities.

Santiago Orozco Contreras was the first of three Mexican nationals taken into custody after a raid on federal land in mid-July and charged with manufacturing marijuana and being in possession of a firearm.

He was turned over to federal authorities sever...