The owner of a cannabis business in Salinas admitted to avoiding taxes and not paying for worker's compensation insurance, the Monterey County District Attorney's Office said.
On Tuesday, Monica Herrera, 43, of Newman, pleaded no contest to felony payroll tax fraud and misdemeanor failure to maintain workers' compensation charges.
Between August 2017 and June 2018, Herrera owned Holistic Farms, LLC., a cannabis cultivation business in the 2200 block of Alisal Road, just south of Salinas.
The company's licenses were up-to-date, prosecutors said. But in June 2018, prosecutors uncovered evidence that Herrera had moved her operation to the 2300 block of Alisal, which was not permitted under her licenses.
DA investigators searched the property and interviewed her cannabis processing employees, who acknowledged Herrera paid them in cash.
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