Drug dealer receives 5-year sentence

A Washington man arrested during an Amtrak Empire Builder stop in Havre who pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to charges including possession of drugs with intent to distribute was sentenced in state District Court in Havre to five years with the state Department of Corrections.

District Judge Dan Boucher sentenced Alejandro Romero, born in 1988, to five years for criminal possession with intent to distribute and five years for use or possession of property subject to criminal forfeiture. Romero also received six months each, all suspended, for criminal possession of drug paraphernalia and cr...