“A decorated former state University at Albany campus police officer was spared prison time Monday for her role in the growing of more than 100 marijuana plants on her Duanesburg property.
Wendy Knoebel, 49, received five months of home confinement and three years probation at her sentencing before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Frederick Scullin. She also must perform 50 hours of community service for her Dec. 9 guilty plea to conspiring to manufacture marijuana.
The judge dipped below a potential sentence that would have sent Knoebel to prison for one year and four months. If convicted at trial, she faced five years behind bars.
“I regret everything and I apologize,” Knoebel told the judge, while sitting next to her attorney, Dennis B. Schlenker. She apologized to the court, her relatives, her 12-year-old daughter, the state of New York, co-workers and her husband.
Her spouse, Kenneth Knoebel, who was in the courtroom, pleaded guilty in December to the same charge as his wife.”
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Gavin, Robert. Times Union 14 May 2012.