<p>LOS ANGELES &mdash; A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy who staged a $2 million robbery of a marijuana warehouse was sentenced Monday to seven years in federal prison.</p>
<p>Marc Antrim, 43, of South El Monte, helped orchestrate an October 2018 raid on a warehouse in downtown Los Angeles in which about $645,000 in cash and more than a half-ton of marijuana were stolen, prosecutors said.</p>
<p>At his sentencing, U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips said the heist “sounded like a movie script” but was “tragic” for the victims and eroded public trust in law enforcement, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office.</p>
<p>Antrim, a patrol deputy at the Temple City sheriff’s station, used a fake search warrant to get by the warehouse security guards, arrived in a sheriff’s patrol vehicle and was accompanied by non-deputies who wore Sheriff’s Department uniforms including duty belts and had guns, prosecutors said.</p>
<p>Over two hours, Antrim and others emptied the warehouse of pot and two large safes, authorities said.</p>
<p>During the robbery, Los Angeles police were called to the warehouse but Antrim falsely told them he was a narcotics deputy “conducting a legitimate search" and they left, prosecutors said.</p>
<p>Antrim wasn’t on duty, wasn’t assigned to the Sheriff’s Department’s narcotics division and wouldn’t have any “legitimate reason" to search a warehouse in Los Angeles, authorities said.</p>
<p>Antrim pleaded guilty in 2019 to conspiracy to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to distribute marijuana; conspiracy to deprive rights under color of law; deprivation of rights under color of law and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.</p>
<p>Six other people have been convicted in the case and were sentenced to six to 14 years in federal prison.</p>