Bedford Co., VA - A Montvale toddler will live with her grandparents next month, while her parents serve time for growing and selling marijuana in their home. Prosecutors say they kept some of the drugs in the girl's room. Her father, Jason Mason, was sentenced Wednesday, the mother, Joanie is up next.

Both were convicted of manufacturing marijuana and child neglect. Back in April, deputies pulled more than 70 marijuana plants, two pounds of pot, already packaged, and nine guns out of a home on Pike Road. That's the house where the Masons lived with their two-year-old daughter. They'd apparently been growing the drugs right there in the house, and storing some of it in the girl's bedroom.

Jason Mason was sentenced to five years in prison on the drug charge, with four of those years suspended. He also got a 12-month suspended sentence for the child neglect charge. As for Joanie Mason: she'll be sentenced until January 13th. That's when her child will go into the custody of its grandparents.

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