A soccer mom and budding equestrian from wealthy Scarsdale, N.Y. has been charged with running a massive pot operation from a Queens warehouse.
Andrea Sanderlin, 45, was taken in by DEA agents two weeks ago, but The Smoking Gun broke the news of her arrest Tuesday. There were allegedly 2,800 pot plants and "large quantities of dried marijuana" in the warehouse, according to court documents.
The DEA says the pot they found in the warehouse was worth $3 million, ABC News reports.
Sanderlin's alleged operation has been compared to the hit Showtime series "Weeds," about a suburban pot-dealing mom. Sanderlin has two kids who have a nanny, and she lives in a village where the median household income is $230,750. She's reportedly divorced.
“Our primary objective is to get her released so she can be there for her two children," her lawyer Joel Winograd told ABC. "She has never been in trouble. She is a full-time mother and she is an equestrian."
Her friend, Anthony Flores, told CBS New York that he knew Sanderlin for three years and just thought she was a "typical soccer mom."
“When I first met her she told me she was running a baby furniture operation,” Flores said. “[The arrest] blew my mind. Especially knowing her like interacting with her day to day. It’s just nuts. I would think not her of all people."
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