Deal could be close in Fitzpatrick pot cases

A judge put a hold on a hearing on charges that a Havre medical marijuana provider violated conditions of her release while facing two sets of charges in Havre — and another in Oregon that a judge just dismissed — when attorneys on both sides asked for time to negotiate new conditions of release and a possible resolution to the charges.

State District Judge David Cybulski of Plentywood — the third judge in a 2012 case against Delaine Fitzpatrick, born in 1977, and the fourth in a set of charges filed against her in 2010 — vacated a hearing Monday convened on a state petition to revoke Fitzpatr...