GRANITE FALLS — A Snohomish County jury Wednesday convicted a former Granite Falls mayor of dealing marijuana.
Floyd “Butch” DeRosia faces up to six months in jail, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Halley Hupp said after Wednesday’s verdict. DeRosia is scheduled to be sentenced later this week.
DeRosia was among more than a dozen people arrested last year as part of a two-year investigation into drug trafficking in Granite Falls. City officers worked undercover with detectives from the Snohomish Regional Drug Task Force and confidential informants.
DeRosia was accused of selling marijuana on two different occasions to undercover officers. After a two-day trial, jurors convicted him of two counts of delivery of a controlled substance.
DeRosia served as mayor for two years until resigning in 2003 amid harassment allegations.
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