Port Angeles man sentenced for selling cocaine in 2010

Published 12:01 am Sunday, August 19, 2012

PORT ANGELES — A 26-year-old Port Angeles man has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for selling cocaine in January 2010.

Robert L. Stone pleaded guilty to two counts of delivery of a controlled substance and was sentenced Aug. 10.

He was transported from the Clallam County jail to a state prison last week.

Stone’s arrest was the result of an Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team, or OPNET, investigation.

It is one of about 40 OPNET cases that are making their way through the court system in one form or another, OPNET supervisor Jason Viada said.

“Nearly all of OPNET’s primary focus has been, and will continue to be, unlawful delivery of methamphetamine, heroin and prescription medication such as oxycodone,” Viada said.

“However, OPNET will certainly investigate cocaine cases when they are presented to us.”

According to the certification of probable cause, a confidential informant purchased cocaine from Stone on four occasions over an eight-day period in January 2010.

All four sales were for approximately 1 gram of cocaine for $60.

Stone pleaded not guilty to three counts of delivery of a controlled substance at his arraignment in February 2010.

He changed his plea to guilty after one of the counts was dismissed.

Stone will serve 20 months probation after his sentence.