Court News Nov. 8, 2016

Man sentenced for having drugs

A man was sentenced Thursday in state District Court in Havre to five years of probation for having marijuana and unlawfully having prescription pills.

Paul Robert Barrows, born in 1966, was sentenced to five years, all suspended, for criminal possession of dangerous drugs, a felony. The sentence was pursuant to a plea deal which dropped two misdemeanor charges.

According to court documents, an investigator from Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation contacted a member of the Tri-Agency Safe Trails Task Force Nov. 7, 2014, to tell him he had found a bottle of pre...