All of the defendants in the $3 million pot ring that involved a former Mason High School student have now been sentenced.

Allen Honeycutt, who Prosecutor David Fornshell said was “at the top of the food chain” in the marijuana grow and distribution business that operated out of the Butler, Hamilton and Warren counties, was found guilty and sentenced to an eight-year prison term last week.

Honeycutt owned the Blue Ash furniture store where the large grow operation was located. He also possessed ledgers detailing the finances of the operation.

The case grabbed headlines after authorities announced they broke up a drug ring involving a 17-year-old Mason High School student who was operating a $20,000-a-month marijuana business. Only three of the eight people involved took their cases to trial. Honeycutt chose to take his chances with a jury after Warren County Common Pleas Judge Robert Peeler found Justin Baker, 32, of Fairfield Twp. guilty on all counts and sentenced him to eight years in prison last December. Baker, who Fornshell said was considered second in command of the operation, has filed a notice of appeal to the 12th District Court of Appeals.

Eight people were indicted in the ring that was exposed when 18-year-old Tyler Pagenstecher was caught selling marijuana to his Mason High School classmates.

Pagenstecher’s activities were the only actions that actually occurred in Warren County, and Baker’s attorneys argued he couldn’t be culpable because all of his activities transpired in Butler and Hamilton counties.

Baker’s attorney Jack Garretson also challenged how seized marijuana is weighed — the amount impacts the severity of the charge — since fresh plants are 80 percent water and not all portions of the plant contain the active drug. At the time he said both are issues for an appeal.

“I’m hoping we can either change the law or change somebody’s mind,” he said after the trial.

William Sparks, 53, of Hamilton, was tending a marijuana operation in Lindenwald in exchange for free rent. He was found guilty after a bench trial on six drug related counts and was sentenced to six months on house arrest and three years probation.

All of the other defendants plead guilty in the case and received punishment in varying degrees. Pagenstecher — who law enforcement had dubbed the “little czar” — was sentenced to the Department of Youth Services for at least six months, up to his 21st birthday back in October. His behavior in lock-up will determine the full length of his term.

“I understood I could get in trouble, but not to the level that I have,” he said at his sentencing in juvenile court. “I regret all of this. I didn’t see how serious it was at the time I was doing it.”

Cody Lampe, 32, of Cincinnati, who had the most charges lodged against him — he had an additional charge of endangering children because he and his wife had pot in their home — plead guilty to four of the 11 counts and was sentenced to five years in prison. His wife Stacy Lampe, 29, plead guilty to three counts of trafficking in marijuana and was sentenced to two years in prison.

They supplied Pagenstecher’s supplier Michael Lopez with pot. Lopez, 29, of Cincinnati, pleaded guilty to several trafficking charges and was sentenced to six months in jail, three years probation and fined $5,000.

Gerald Peele, 20, of Mason, who was one of Pagenstecher’s dealers, pleaded guilty on trafficking and engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and was sentenced to three months house arrest and probation.

Fornshell said this case was highly unusual, and the defendant’s ultimate punishment also rested on their level of cooperation in the case.

“It’s very rare that we have the opportunity to prosecute at every single level of a major drug organization and every single person up and down that line,” he said. “In this case we were able to do that and it’s very satisfying.”