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Oregon man sentenced for drugs on Amtrak

Osornio gets five years suspended

A Salem, Ore., man was put in the supervision of the state Department of Corrections for five years in a suspended sentence for having drugs and drug paraphernalia while riding Amtrak through Havre.

Uriel Osornio Jr., born in 1992, was arrested in December after a Tri-Agency Safe Trails Task Force agent received a tip he would be carrying drugs while riding the train east along the Hi-Line.

A U.S. Border Patrol intelligence agent told the task force agent Osornio had ridden the train from Williston, N.D., to Portland, Ore., and boarded the train Dec. 4 to head back to Williston.

The task force agent boarded the train in Havre Dec. 5, and was told Osornio was on probation in Oregon and must submit to searches by law enforcement.

A charging document says Osornio was convicted in 2012 of possession of cocaine and had been arrested several times including for selling marijuana.

The agent found suspected heroin and methamphetamine in a sock and a duffel bag, which Osornio said did not belong to him.

Osornio was charged with two counts of possession of drugs with intent to sell and carrying dangerous drugs on a train, all felonies, and misdemeanor counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and obstructing a peace officer.

Jan. 31, Osornio pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to the possession of drugs with intent to sell them and the possession of drug paraphernalia charge.

Monday in state District Court in Havre, Judge Dan Boucher sentenced Osornio, who had been released to Salem, Ore., to stay with his mother, to five years all suspended on each of the drug charges and to six months suspended on the paraphernalia charge, all to run at the same time.

He ordered Osornio to pay $235 in fees and surcharges and $1,718 in fines and $800 for the cost of his attorneys.

 
 

Reader Comments(1)

Guesswho writes:

Are you serious Boucher, run them in the front door of the courthouse and the judge runs them out the back door. Something is wrong here in Hill county when all the judge seems to know is suspended or deferred sentences. I think it is time for a new judge and Boucher can go back to his public defender law practice.