A 36-year-old Lake County man was sentenced Wednesday to 31 years in prison for his role in illegally growing hundreds of marijuana plants and forcing a runaway teen to work at the farm, sometimes keeping her inside a small metal tool chest.
In a remote area near Clear Lake in Northern California, authorities say a teenage girl from Los Angeles County was sexually abused and sometimes held captive in this metal box.
Authorities also found a 15-year-old girl from Los Angeles County who Balletto and another man, Patrick Stephen Pearmain, 31, forced to help them, prosecutors said. inside the box and a poem in Balletto’s trailer that the girl had written about being held in the box, according to court records.
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