Tien Van Pham Pleads Guilty in Shakopee Southbridge Marijuana Case

A Shakopee man accused of using his Southbridge home to grow marijuana has pleaded guilty in Scott County Court.

to one count of felony first-degree sale of 50 kilos or more of marijuana near a city park. Pham pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of felony second-degree sale of 5 kilos or more of marijuana in April as part of a plea agreement.

at a home on the 7200 block of Berkshire Lane when officers arrived with a search warrant. Officers say they found 1,600 live marijuana plants, dried marijuana plants and equipment to grow marijuana on each level of the home and in the attached garage. The home is less than a block from Hamlet Park.

Agents from the Southwest Metro Drug Task Force placed a street value of $2.5 million on the 1,600 live plants.

Mark Williams, Carver County sheriff's sergeant and head of the task force, said the value of the marijuana produced at wholesale would have been somewhere between $1 million to $1.5 million. 

Pham's sentencing is set for June 18.

Officers from the Shakopee Police Department, Carver County Sheriff’s Office and Scott County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the investigation.

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