San Juan Ridge resident Charles Miller Hilkey Jr. was arrested Tuesday, just eight days before his scheduled sentencing on federal money-laundering and marijuana cultivation charges, for allegedly violating his release conditions. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Beckwith, the prosecutor in the federal case against Hilkey, did not return a call for comment on the specifics of those violations. But the week before Hilkey’s most recent arrest, members of the Nevada County Sheriff’s Narcotics Task Force were out at several properties he owns on Tyler Foote Crossing and Patterson Mine roads, according to dispatch reports. In September 2009, nearly 200 law enforcement …
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