SEATTLE, Wash. -- A West Linn resident was sentenced Friday to five years in prison and four years of supervised release for distributing marijuana across the country.

Rusty Boschee, 33, also had to forfeit $3.3 million in cash that was seized from him at the time of his arrest in Wyoming to the government.

“It’s an incredible amount of cash and marijuana you got yourself involved with,” U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Zilly said at the sentencing.

Boschee rented a trailer in March 2007 and parked it in Stanwood, Wash., leaving it there so that it would be loaded it with marijuana, according to court documents.

When he returned, the trailer was filled with more than 295 kilograms of B.C. Bud, which Boschee drove across the United States, delivering the drugs to Chicago and New York, according to court documents.

Boschee was stopped on April 7, 2007, by a Wyoming State Patrol trooper who found $3,322,230 in his truck. The money was confiscated and Boschee was later indicted.

At sentencing, a lawyer for the government said the money belonged to organized criminals in Canada.

"The marijuana trade is big business and Boschee was a trusted courier. The organized criminal group will not suffer, because they do it on the backs of people like Mr. Boschee," Special Assistant United States Attorney Adam Cornell said.

Boschee expressed remorse for his actions in a letter to the court and said that he'd been a daily marijuana smoker and never thought anything bad would come of marijuana use.

"In the end marijuana is no different or less harmful than any other illegal drug," Boschee said. "It has just as much potential for abuse and is able to ruin lives, the same as any drug legal or otherwise."