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Scarsdale "Pot Mom" Indicted In Brooklyn Tuesday

SCARSDALE, N.Y. – Andrea Sanderlin, the Scarsdale housewife who was charged with growing and trafficking $3 million of marijuana, was indicted on Tuesday in federal court.

Scarsdale resident Andrea Sanderlin was indicted on Tuesday.

Scarsdale resident Andrea Sanderlin was indicted on Tuesday.

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Sanderlin told people she was an interior designer or baby furniture saleswoman while she set up a front company called “Fantastic Enterprises” that was based out of a Queens warehouse, police said.

“Sanderlin chose to inhabit the shadowy underworld of large-scale drug dealers, suing drug proceeds to maintain her family’s façade of upper middle class stability,” U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said.

The mother of three faces a decade in prison and up to $10 million in fines on felony charges of manufacturing and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute and maintaining a drug-involved property.

She was held at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in lieu of bail. She pleaded not guilty last month after being arrested on the federal charge.

Sanderlin rented a four-bedroom, five-bathroom home on Saxon Woods Road in the village, where she routinely kept large amounts of cash and books on money laundering and pot growing, police said.

The Drug Enforcement Agency got wind of Sanderlin's quiet operation after her friend and fellow Scarsdale resident Stephen Haberstroh was busted as part of another pot-ring in April, according to the report. Another suspect in that case talked to the feds about someone referred to as "Andi." Authorities started tailing Sanderlin, who they saw use large amounts of cash to buy items from a Brooklyn garden that authorities say could be used in a marijuana grow house.

According to reports, Sanderlin was compared to a Colombian drug kingpin when the indictment was announced.

“Whether you’re a suburban mom growing marijuana in a warehouse in Queens, or a cartel member making cocaine in the jungles of Colombia, manufacturing and distributing illegal narcotics come at hefty price,” James Hayes Jr., a Homeland Security agent said in a statement.

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