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Havre man gets 5 years for drug dealing

A Havre man received five years with the Department of Corrections after being found with 23 bindles of methamphetamine for distribution purposes.

Jason Lee Berger, born in 1983, was sentenced in District Court in Havre to five years for felony criminal possession with intent to distribute followed by a two years suspended commitment. District Judge Daniel Boucher also sentenced Berger to five years, all suspended, for felony use of property subject to criminal forfeiture.

The sentence is part of a plea deal.

Berger’s sentence is to run consecutively to a sentence he is already ser...

 

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