BANGOR – A Sorrento woman was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to 16 months in prison for her part in a marijuana-growing operation in her home, which she forfeited in a plea agreement with prosecutors.

Roxanna Carter, formerly Roxanna Sanborn, 57, also was sentenced to three years of supervised release after she gets out of federal prison.

She pleaded guilty in April to possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute the more than 450 marijuana plants that were found growing in the West Side Road home and on the property.

Carter faced up to 40 years in prison and a fine of up to $2 million.

Craig Folsom, 51, the man with whom Carter shared the home, was sentenced in August to 27 months in federal prison for manufacturing marijuana. He also was sentenced to three years of probation after his release and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.

The couple also agreed to forfeit ownership of the property where the plants were grown and to forfeit the more than $16,000 in cash found when they were arrested in March 2004 at the home.

The property where Carter and Folsom lived is valued for tax purposes at $206,200, according to Sorrento officials. Sorrento valuations are based on approximately 85 percent of market value.

The property will be sold by the government. A sale date has not been set.

Folsom and Carter lived together in the single-story, eight-room home. When members of Hancock County’s three-member task force entered the house with federal drug agents, they found 380 marijuana plants growing in six rooms and the cellar.

In a shed behind the house, agents found 72 marijuana plants. They also confiscated more than 19 pounds of processed marijuana in addition to hashish and cocaine, according to court documents.

“It was a very sophisticated operation,” Ellsworth police Lt. Harold Page said two years ago when the arrest was announced. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”