A Burlington business owner who used his store to sell pot will spend nearly two years in jail. Derek Spilman pleaded guilty to drug, gun and obstruction of justice charges. Our Calvin Cutler has details from court.

The business at 500 Church Street is where Spilman owned and operated the Good Times Gallery. It's also where he illegally sold pot to minors.

Monday afternoon, a federal judge handed down Spilman's sentence after he apologized to the court, his family and the greater Burlington community.

Spillman will serve 29 months behind bars to charges of illegally possessing three firearms, conspiring to distribute marijuana and obstruction of justice charges. He also has to pay $50,000 to the feds to make up for money that he made illegally. He's already paid back half of that.

At his sentencing hearing, surrounded by friends and family, Spilman's legal team said that he was only selling small amounts of pot and that he has changed for the better in the eight months he's been in prison.

They also said that much of the $11,000 he had on him when we was arrested was mostly money from his business, not from selling pot.

But Judge Christina Reiss says in her 15 years of presiding over the court, she'd never seen a case like this where someone showed such a risky pattern of behavior, going as far as enlisting a family member to take the blame, and then lying to the court.

The judge also says Spilman intimidated witnesses by spreading feces on the door of a neighboring business who reported him to police.

She also says the illegal mix of selling pot and owning keeping several firearms at a business on busy Church Street made the situation more severe.

After time already served, Spilman will serve 21 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

The court also ordered him to enroll in a mental health program and take drug tests when he's out.