Former Adelanto mayor sentenced to prison in cannabis bribery scheme

Kerr won election in 2014 in the struggling city known for its prisons and immigration detention center. He promised that Adelanto would one day be the “Silicon Valley of medical marijuana.”
Richard Kerr, the former Adelanto mayor who vowed to save his cash-strapped high desert city by embracing medical marijuana businesses, was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison Friday in connecti…