UPDATE: Monty Gene Smith II was sentenced to three days to six months in county jail for the DUI case and to 30 days to a year in jail for the possession case. The sentences will run concurrently.
WHAT WE FIRST REPORTED
In Indiana County Court today, sentencing is scheduled for 36-year-old Monty Gene Smith II, a Saltsburg man arrested on drug charges last year in Indiana Borough.
Smith and another man were passengers in a vehicle pulled over for a suspicious persons alert on May 10th of last year. As police questioned the other man Smith fled on foot, but was caught about a block away. He was charged with multiple offenses, including possession with intent to deliver, after police searched the vehicle and found his book bag, which contained crystal meth.
Smith pleaded guilty to a single charge of misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance, but with other cases pending against him, he disappeared soon after and was captured in October in Florida. He will also be sentenced today for DUI controlled substance, stemming from an arrest in August of last year.
Smith has cases pending in both Westmoreland and Armstrong counties, including a possession with intent to deliver case involving methamphetamine and three bricks of heroin, found in his possession in Vandergrift in October of last year.
He has a preliminary hearing scheduled before District Judge Guy Haberl on January 13th for a new case from August of this year in which he is charged with felony possession with intent to deliver, two counts of misdemeanor possession, and several traffic offenses. In that case, state police pulled him over on Philadelphia Street and found drugs in his vehicle, including suboxone, stamp bags with white powder in them, labeled “COVID 19” and “POLO”, and paraphernalia. In the trunk of the vehicle, police found a safe containing 667 more stamp bags, $7,880 in cash, and more paraphernalia.
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