A career criminal arrested in Montgomery County for marijuana possession in April 2011 has been sentenced to 37 years in prison after, prosecutors said, he launched an intimidation campaign against a state witness.

Michael Eugene Donati left marijuana plants on the witness’s porch and bags of pot in his shoes, sent threatening emails to the witness’s workplace and emailed false tips to various police agencies implying that the witness was growing marijuana, prosecutors said.

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