From the Courts. Mar. 23, 2017

Woman involved in hash oil operation sentenced

A Havre woman received two years probation Monday in District Court in Havre for her involvement in a local hash oil operation.

Haley M. Kelm of Havre, born in 1997, received a two-year deferred imposition of sentence for tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, a felony. The sentence was based on a plea deal that dropped three additional misdemeanor charges and if Kelm abides by the sentence conditions she can have the offense struck off her record.

Tri-Agency Safe Trails Task Force agents received information Feb. 5, 2016, that a Havre resident was selling marijuana and hash oil, known as “wax” out of his McKinley Avenue residence, a court document says. The informant also told agents he had bought prescription pills from the man.

A search warrant was approved and the man was pulled over Feb. 10, 2016, after leaving his home. When asked if he had keys to the home and if there was anyone else there, the man told the officer that his girlfriend, Kelm, their children and an aggressive dog were in the home.

Two Task Force agents then went to the home and, when they got there, Kelm admitted she had flushed a quarter-pound of marijuana down the toilet, the document says. The agents continued the search and found “a large amount of paraphernalia” in the cupboard and drawers.

They found four small razors with hash residue, small scrapers, a digital scale, a propane torch, a blow tube and a digital scale in the back bedroom, which was believed to be shared with the children, the document says. The agents also found 47 hash oil manufacturing paraphernalia, three propane tanks, two propane torch adapters, two butane torches, 17 drug use paraphernalia such as smoking pipes and bongs, a stun gun flashlight, a stolen .38-caliber pistol, two more digital scales and a stolen Xbox.

The man was arrested and taken to the Hill County Detention Center. Kelm agreed to speak to an agent.

Kelm told the agent she had known the man was making hash oil, and she was aware of the dangers of it, the document says. She said the man occasionally sold marijuana to make money because he doesn’t have a job. She said she flushed the marijuana down the toilet because she didn’t want her children taken away.

Rocky Boy man sentenced forselling prescription pills

A Rocky Boy man received two years probation Monday in District Court in Havre for illegally selling hydrocodone pills.

Kermit Corcoran, born in 1955, received a two-year deferred imposition of sentence for felony criminal distribution of dangerous drugs, a sentence based on a plea deal. If Corcoran abides by the conditions of the sentence, he can have the offense struck off his record.

Tri-Agency Safe Trails Task Force Agents received information Sept. 29, 2014, from an informant that a woman was selling prescription medication, a court document says. Agents applied for a search warrant for the woman and unidentified co-conspirators and set up a controlled drug deal.

The informant drove with two people, stopping at a Lincoln Avenue address, a First Street establishment and a gas station before returning to the Lincoln Avenue address.

The informant gave the agents six 7.5 milligram hydrocodone pills and listened to a wire recording of the transaction. In the recording, the agents heard the woman ask a man later identified as Corcoran, if he had six, to which he replied that he did, the document says.