Pot bust results in federal prison sentence

A San Diego man arrested outside Havre after a Montana Highway Patrol officer found about two pounds of marijuana in a vehicle he was in has been sentenced to 14 months in federal prison.

Keith Scott, 21, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Great Falls to 10 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute marijuana and four months for failure to appear, to run consecutively, according to a press release from the U.S Attorney's Office.

According to the release, Scott was a passenger in a gold, mid-size rental car driven by Harold Shipley, 31, also known as Kaseem Alim Shipley, during a...