WORCESTER A former Millbury woman who played a minor role in a scheme in which her husband and son used their plumbing business as a front for a large marijuana grow avoided a jail sentence Wednesday in federal court.
Andrea Laverty, 64, whose son Thomas Laverty was sentenced to 12 years in connection with the crime Tuesday, was ordered to serve one year of home confinement after she apologized and noted she will now be the prime caretaker for her grandson.
“I understand my actions were wrong,” she told Judge Timothy S. Hillman in U.S. District Court in Worcester, where both her son and husband had fought the charges.