UPDATE: Derek Colberg was ordered to serve 15 months to five years in state prison for a count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. He was also ordered to serve 72 hours to 6 months in county jail for a charge of driving under the influence of a controlled substance. While the DUI sentence was ordered to run concurrently with the possession sentence, President Judge Tom Bianco paroled him from his county jail sentence.
WHAT WE FIRST REPORTED
Sentencing hearings are set for today in Indiana County Court, including one for a Marion Center man charged with DUI and drug-related crimes for an incident in December of 2020.
Court documents show 33-year-old Derek Colberg of Marion Center is scheduled to be sentenced today before President Judge Thomas Bianco. The charges came from a three-vehicle crash in Clymer Borough on the morning of December 7th of 2020. Police say that a witness saw Colberg exit one of the vehicles involved in the crash and throw a black backpack near a telephone pole. The backpack had a metal safe containing eight containers of suspected crystal meth, over 100 stamp bags of suspected heroin and several different pills. The backpack also had syringes, a straw, a spoon, a smoking pipe, a vape pen, other drug paraphernalia items and cash. Colberg was under the influence of narcotics at the time of the crash. Colberg pleaded guilty last September to possession with intent to deliver and DUI-Controlled Substance.
Others due in court today will be sentenced on various other drug and dui-related crimes.
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