CLEARFIELD – A former DuBois man accused of possessing over 31 grams of methamphetamine pleaded guilty Monday during colloquy court.
The charges stem from an incident at a local hotel on Jan. 20, 2023 when police were asked to do a welfare check on a resident who was due to check out at 11 a.m. and did not. They were concerned because his phone was shut off.
When officers made contact with the man, Jack Anderson II, 37, they checked his record and learned he was wanted by state parole. He was taken into custody.
In the room, they saw needle caps and broken straws “scattered around the room,” according to the affidavit of probable cause.
After receiving permission from hotel employees, officers searched the room, reportedly finding $1,775 in cash, numerous plastic bags containing a white crystallized substance, more drug paraphernalia and scales.
At the police station, two backpacks belonging to Anderson were searched. In them they discovered more baggies with the crystal substance, drug paraphernalia and $903 in cash, according to the criminal complaint.
The crime lab determined the substance was methamphetamine and weighed a total of 31.14 grams, according to the report.
He was sentenced by President Judge Fredric J. Ammerman to serve 24 months to four years in state prison for felony possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, as well as misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. He will also serve 12 months probation.
This sentence will run consecutive to his current state prison sentence of 2½ to five years that he received in November for a probation violation for a Jefferson County case.