Local sentenced for selling marijuana

A local man was sentenced last Monday in District Court in Havre to three years probation for selling marijuana to an informant.

Roman Surber, born in 1980, received a three-year deferred imposition of sentence for the offense of criminal distribution of dangerous drugs, a felony. The sentence is pursuant to a plea deal that dismissed a similar charge.

If Surber abides by the conditions of his probation, he will have the opportunity to have the conviction struck off his record.

A Tri-agency Safe Trails Task Force agent received a call May 12, 2015, from an informant who said they’d arranged to buy an eight ounce of marijuana for $50 at Surber’s home, a court document says.

Two agents met with the informant before the informant bought the determined amount of marijuana for the determined cost from Surber. The marijuana was field tested and validated.

The informant again contacted Task Force agents May 18, 2015, to tell them that another drug deal had been set up with Surber.

After the transaction, the informant told agents that there were two other people in the room the marijuana had been purchased. The informant also said that Surber gave the money he received to a man named Terry Adamson.

“Informant reported that Surber gets his marijuana from Adamson and that is the reason that Surber provided the money to Adamson,” the charging document says.