SAN DIEGO — Former Vancouver pastor John Bishop was sentenced to five years in prison on a federal drug-smuggling charge Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Diego.

As Bishop, 55, entered the courtroom wearing a tan jumpsuit with an orange shirt underneath, he mouthed, “I love you” to his estranged wife Michelle Bishop, and frequently turned toward her during the proceedings.

The founder and former senior pastor of Vancouver’s Living Hope Church gave his “deepest apologies to the United States of America, to this court, to your honor, to my family, to my previous church family in my city that I came from and mostly to my wife.” As he spoke, Michelle Bishop, 55, was in the courtroom, at times wiping tears from her face. Her mother sat with her.

Sentencing began Tuesday in closed court. Wednesday’s session concluded a nearly yearlong process that began when John Bishop was arrested Dec. 11, 2017, by federal officials at the border crossing from Tijuana, Mexico, to the San Diego suburb of San Ysidro, Calif. He was driving a gray 2014 Volkswagen Passat, which contained 105 packages of marijuana concealed in the car’s bumpers, rear seat, dashboard and at least one wheel well.

Chief U.S. District Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz wondered who would even think to stop someone at the border who has a SENTRI pass and is a pastor.