Looking gaunt and glum, alleged suburban pot princess Andrea Sanderlin pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn federal court yesterday to running a huge pot-selling enterprise out of a Queens warehouse.
The Benz-driving Westchester mom of two has been compared to the lead character of Showtime’s “Weeds,” which depicts a suburban family’s pot operation.
“This is not life imitating art,” her lawyer, Corey Winograd, said after the plea. “This is real life.”
Sanderlin, 45, of Scarsdale, was arrested last month after cops found more than 3,000 marijuana plants worth $3 million stashed in a Maspeth grow house she rented, prosecutors allege.
The former Scarsdale equestrian traded in her riding outfit and boots for a crummy green prison jumpsuit and chunky white sneakers during her brief appearance yesterday as she mumbled a not guilty plea to Judge Steven Gold.