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 prescription medication on his son, who did not have a prescription for the pills. The man said he had learned that the pills belonged to Barrows.

The agent was granted a warrant to search Barrow’s home.

In the home, the agent found a glass pipe, a metal container with marijuana, a pill bottle with seven Clonazepans and a digital scale, documents say.

Barrows told the agent that the paraphernalia and the pills were his. Barrows said he didn’t have a prescription for the pills and he didn’t have a marijuana card.

Burglar receives sentence

A young man received three years probation Thursday in District Court for burglarizing a Havre home.

Andrew Ambler, born in 1998, received a three-year deferred imposition of sentence for burglary, a felony.

If he abides by the conditions of his sentence, he can have the offense erased from his record following the probation.

According to court documents, someone called the police Feb. 4 to report she’d seen two “kids” running out of her neighbor’s house on Washington Avenue carrying a TV and leaving in a dark-colored vehicle.

The officers looked around the home from which the people carrying the TV fled and concluded that two TVs had been stolen.

Daniel Azure-Denny, who lived in the robbed house with his mother and stepfather, went to the police station to tell officers that Ambler may have some animosity toward him because “they have a history of committing thefts and burglaries together,” court documents say.

After talking to the couple of the home, officers learned that a phone and laptop were also missing.

A witness told the investigating officer that she saw a “skinny” white male and a Native American female load items into a dark-colored vehicle.

Ambler was later pulled over in a dark-colored vehicle and wearing clothes that matched the description given by witnesses.

Ambler told officers he could not give permission to search the vehicle because it was his mother’s. His mother was contacted and she gave permission to search the vehicle.

A Dell laptop was found and the mother said it was not hers. When the laptop was turned on, a login screen with the name and a picture of one of the residents of the robbed house popped up, and Ambler was arrested.