PORT ANGELES — Two Carlsborg residents Travis D. McDaniel and Katherine M. Melcer were sentenced this month to 20 months in state prison followed by 20 months’ community custody after each pleaded guilty to selling heroin last December.
McDaniel, 35, was sentenced last Tuesday in Clallam County Superior Court after he pleaded guilty to delivering heroin to an Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team, or OPNET, informant last Dec. 6.
The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office alleged that McDaniel sold the drug within 1,000 feet of Greywolf Elementary School in Carlsborg, court papers said.
Three other counts of delivery of heroin were dismissed as part of a plea agreement.
Melcer, 34, plead guilty Nov. 4 to selling heroin last Dec. 5, 6 and 10, OPNET Supervisor Jason Viada said.
She was sentenced Nov. 12.
McDaniel and Melcer were arrested during a traffic stop in Jefferson County on April 9.
Meanwhile, Corey R. Spaulding and Kaitlan M. Gort, both of Port Hadlock, have been charged in Jefferson County Superior Court with selling methamphetamine, Viada said.
Spaulding, 29, was charged with four counts of delivery of methamphetamine and maintaining a premises for drug trafficking for allegedly using a public housing apartment to distribute the drug from September to November, Viada said.
Gort, 23, was charged with two counts of delivery of methamphetamine and maintaining a premises for drug trafficking for allegedly selling the drug from the apartment she shared with Spaulding, Viada said.
Sequim police, the U.S. Border Patrol, Clallam and Jefferson counties’ sheriff’s offices and the Coast Guard assisted OPNET with the investigation.
“After Spaulding and Gort were arrested by Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies, the children who lived in the apartment were taken into protective custody because there was probable cause to believe that the children were endangered by the drug activity in the apartment,” Viada said in a Friday news release.
“Also during the investigation, the car used by Spaulding and Gort was seized because there was probable cause to believe that the car had been used to transport methamphetamine from out of the area back into Port Hadlock.”
Heroin sentence
In other OPNET cases, Brian L. Constant, 27, of Port Angeles was sentenced to one year in prison and eight months’ community custody after pleading guilty last Tuesday to selling heroin May 30.
Kenneth F. Simmons, 50, of Clallam County was sentenced to two years of community custody after pleading guilty Oct. 29 to first-degree possession of stolen property and two counts of delivery of methamphetamine.
During the Simmons investigation, OPNET recovered a stolen bulldozer, excavator, off-road vehicle, boat motor and firearm, Viada said.
Jason W. Morehead, 44, of Port Angeles was sentenced to two years’ community custody after pleading guilty last month to delivering methamphetamine to OPNET in May, Viada said.
